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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Capacity

Article 1152

The limitation period for the action runs: 1° In respect of acts performed by a minor, from the day of majority or emancipation; 2° In respect of acts performed by a protected adult of full age, from…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions specific to contracts concluded by electronic means

Article 1127-1

…make the applicable contractual stipulations available in a manner that allows them to be preserved and reproduced.The author of an offer remains bound by it for as long as it is accessible by electro…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Acts performed by undivided co-owners.

Article 815-3

The undivided co-owners holding at least two-thirds of the undivided rights may, by this majority: 1° Carry out acts of administration relating to the undivided property; 2° Give one or more of the un…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Rendering of accounts and termination of guardianship.

Article 810-12

Curatorship ends: 1° By the allocation of all assets to the payment of debts and legacies; 2° By the realisation of all assets and the consignment of the net proceeds; 3° By the restitution of the est…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Capacity to dispose of or receive by gift inter vivos or by will.

Article 909

Members of the medical and pharmacy professions, as well as medical auxiliaries who have provided care to a person during the illness from which he or she dies, may not benefit from inter vivos or tes…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Preferential allocations.

Article 831-2

The surviving spouse or any co-owner heir may also apply for preferential allotment: 1° Of the ownership or the right to the lease of the premises which effectively serve as his or her dwelling, if he…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The opening of the vacancy.

Article 809

The succession is vacant: 1° When no one appears to claim the succession and there is no known heir; 2° When all the known heirs have renounced the succession; 3° When, after the expiry of a period of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Termination of the posthumous mandate.

Article 812-4

The mandate terminates by one of the following events: 1° The arrival of the stipulated term; 2° The renunciation of the mandatary; 3° The judicial revocation, at the request of an interested heir or…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Qualifications for succession.

Article 727

The following may be declared unworthy to succeed:1° He who is sentenced, as perpetrator or accomplice, to a correctional penalty for having voluntarily given or attempted to give death to the decease…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Qualifications for succession.

Article 726

The following are unworthy of succession and, as such, excluded from the estate: 1° Anyone who is sentenced, as perpetrator or accomplice, to a criminal penalty for having wilfully caused or attempted…

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