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Showing 591600 of 62298 articles for Art. 1231-1 et 1231-5 · CA Versailles 20 April 1995 · Cass. 2e civ. 10 July 2003 · Cass. 1re civ. 11 September 2013 n° 12-24.812

French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Invalidity

Article 1180

…lity may be requested by any person justifying an interest, as well as by the public prosecutor. It cannot be covered by confirmation of the contract.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Invalidity

Article 1185

A plea of nullity is not time-barred if it relates to a contract that has not been performed.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Invalidity

Article 1183

…e contract or bring an action for nullity within a period of six months on pain of foreclosure. The cause of the nullity must have ceased. The writing expressly states that if no action for nullity is…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Invalidity

Article 1179

Nullity is absolute where the rule infringed has as its object the safeguarding of the general interest. It is relative where the rule infringed has as its sole object the safeguarding of a private in…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Examination of the application

Article 1220

The guardianship judge may, in all cases where he or she is obliged or considers it useful to hear the person to be protected or protected, travel throughout the jurisdiction of the court of appeal as…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Income from securities issued outside France and similar income

Article 121

1. For the application of Article 120, the incorporation of reserves by a foreign company into its share capital does not constitute a chargeable event for income tax. The provisions set out in 1 of A…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3°: Sickness and maternity insurance for non-agricultural self-employed workers

Article 1069

I. - Documents relating to the application of loi n° 66-509 du 12 juillet 1966 relative à l'assurance maladie et à l'assurance maternité des travailleurs non salariés des professions non agricoles, ar…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Accounting

Article D72-104-10

The president of the local authority attaches the mandates and supporting documents for expenditure, indicated in articles D. 1617-19 and D. 1617-20, to the issue slips that he sends to the local auth…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Sub-section 6: Conditions for informing relatives

Article R1131-20-1

I. - Prior to the prescription, under the conditions laid down in Article R. 1131-5, of an examination of genetic characteristics likely to identify a genetic anomaly which may be responsible for a se…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: Delegation, total and partial withdrawal of parental authority, judicial declaration of parental abandonment

Article 1208

…the service to whom the child has been entrusted, and any person whose hearing it deems useful. In cases where the parents have disappeared, the court or judge may order a search to be carried out in…

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