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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Property retained as security.

Article 2369

Reserved ownership of a fungible asset may be exercised, up to the amount of the outstanding claim, over assets of the same nature and quality held by the debtor or on his behalf.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Preferential and resale rights

Article 2453

In the cases provided for in the two preceding articles, the property must be valued by an expert appointed amicably or judicially. If its value exceeds the amount of the secured debt, the creditor ow…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Preferential and resale rights

Article 2456

…e, the third-party purchaser may: -either pay, -or purge the property in accordance with the rules set out in the following sub-section, -or allow itself to be seized.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Property retained as security.

Article 2370

The incorporation of an item of movable property subject to a retention of title into another item of property does not preclude the creditor's rights where those items of property can be separated wi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Preferential and resale rights

Article 2452

It may be agreed in the mortgage agreement that the creditor will become the owner of the mortgaged property. However, this clause has no effect on an immovable that is the debtor's principal residenc…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Property retained as security.

Article 2367

Ownership of an asset may be retained as security by the effect of a retention of title clause which suspends the translative effect of a contract until full payment of the obligation which constitute…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Preferential and resale rights

Article 2454

…d, the mortgagee may take legal action for the sale of the mortgaged property under the conditions set out in Book III of the

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Preferential and resale rights

Article 2451

The mortgagee may also apply to the court for the property, if it is not the principal residence of the grantor, to remain in payment to him.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4a: Compensation for victims of benfluorex

Article L1142-24-2

…the matter to the Office national d'indemnisation des accidents médicaux, des affections iatrogènes et des infections nosocomiales (National Office for Compensation for Medical Accidents, Iatrogenic D…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Reimbursement of unemployment benefit

Article R1235-4

…ed, if the debtor is a legal entity, or with the debtor himself, if the debtor is a natural person: 1° By declaration; 2° By any means that provides a date certain for receipt of the objection. The ob…

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