French Legislation In English

Search, Read and Apply French Law. In English.

20+ full codes, 2,400+ articles translated and updated. Case law linked to every article. Read the actual text before you ask a lawyer about it — free, no login required.

Try: L.227-1 SAS governance, L.145-9 bail commercial renewal, L.223-18 gérant removal SARL

20+

french codes

Fully translated

2,400+

articles in English

Updated regularly

480+

court rulings linked

Per article

Free

full access

No login required

Showing 28712880 of 59015 articles for Art. 10 and 11

French Civil CodeIn force
Title III: Sources of obligations

Article 1100-2

Legal facts are acts or events to which the law attaches legal effects.Obligations arising from a legal fact are governed, as the case may be, by the subtitle relating to extra-contractual liability o…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Title III: Sources of obligations

Article 1100-1

…ffects. They may be conventional or unilateral.They obey, as a matter of course, for their validity and effects, the rules that govern contracts.

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions specific to contracts concluded by electronic means

Article 1127-2

…y concluded if the recipient of the offer has had the opportunity to check the details of his order and its total price and to correct any errors before confirming it to express his final acceptance.T…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Negotiations

Article 1112-2

Any person who uses or discloses without authorisation confidential information obtained in the course of negotiations shall be liable under the conditions of ordinary law.

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Introductory provisions

Article 1111-1

An instantaneous performance contract is one in which the obligations can be performed in a single performance.A successive performance contract is one in which the obligations of at least one party a…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1844-11

An action for nullity is extinguished when the cause of the nullity has ceased to exist on the day the court rules on the merits at first instance, unless the nullity is based on the unlawfulness of t…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2a: Provisions applicable to certain breaches of the Highway Code

Article 529-11

The notice of contravention provided for by articles 529-1 and 529-8 or the payment notice for the settlement provided for by Article 529-6 may be sent following the discovery of a traffic offence com…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-11

…98, any person suspected of having committed abroad one of the following offences may be prosecuted and tried by the French courts, if he is habitually resident in the territory of the Republic: 1° Th…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-11

…resident of the court of appeal or the sitting magistrate designated by him orders the imprisonment and extradition of the person claimed at the remand centre at the seat of the court of appeal. Howev…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Procedural frameworks

Article 696-114

However, where it is necessary either to investigate a person or to place him or her under the status of an assisted witness, or to have recourse to investigative acts which can only be ordered in the…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
Common Questions

French legislation in English — Q&A

Our translations are produced and reviewed for accuracy, but the only legally binding version of French law is the French original. For court, registry or contractual use we offer lawyer-reviewed or sworn certified translations on request.
Articles are synced with Légifrance and updated as soon as a reform is published in the Journal Officiel, so you always read the version in force — and can see when each article was last amended.
Each article is linked to the key court decisions (Cour de cassation, Conseil d'État, courts of appeal) that interpret it, so you can read the text and its case-law application side by side.
Yes — every article has an AI plain-English summary, and you can order a lawyer-reviewed explanation of how it applies to your specific situation, with next steps.
No. Reading and searching the codes is free with no login. Paid services — certified translation and the legal application report — are entirely optional.
Mariela Petrova

Mariela Petrova

Avocate au Barreau de Paris

Toque #C2396

15+ Years In French Corporate Practice

English · French · Russian

Ready When You Are

Talk To A Lawyer
In France.

A 20–30 minute call, in English, to scope the engagement. No obligation, no preliminary fee. You will leave the call with a clear view of what the work will cover and what it will cost.

First EngagementFixed Fee

Talk to a French lawyer.

Reply within 24 hours.

Communications protected by professional secrecy — secret professionnel de l'avocat, Article 66-5 of the Law of 31 December 1971.

Continue

Related legal services

01 / Read

Browse the French codes

20+ full codes and 2,400+ articles in English, with the key court rulings linked to every article — free to read.

Read More
02 / Apply

Legal application report

A lawyer-reviewed report explaining how the relevant articles apply to your situation, with case-law analysis and next steps.

Read More
03 / Act

Talk to a French lawyer

Scope your matter with a Paris-Bar avocate — incorporation, contracts, disputes — handled bilingually, end to end.

Read More