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Showing 7180 of 4456 articles for Art. 14 déc. 1993

French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Community assets

Article 1407

Property acquired in exchange for property that belonged to one of the spouses in his or her own right is itself his or her own property, except for the compensation due to or by the community, if the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Community liabilities

Article 1411

…merged into the common patrimony and can no longer be identified according to the rules of Article 1402.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administration of community and private property.

Article 1433

The community owes a reward to the owner spouse whenever it has benefited from own property. This is the case, in particular, when it has received own money or money from the sale of own property, wit…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Liquidation and partition of the community.

Article 1474

Withdrawals from community property constitute a partition transaction. They do not confer on the spouse exercising them any right to be preferred to community creditors, except for the preference res…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Part I: Legal community

Article 1400

The community, which is established in the absence of a contract or by the simple declaration that one is marrying under the community regime, is subject to the rules explained in the three sections t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Community liabilities

Article 1410

The debts for which the spouses were liable on the day of the celebration of their marriage, or which are encumbered by the successions and gifts which devolve upon them during the marriage, remain pe…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administration of community and private property.

Article 1421

…power to perform the acts of administration and disposal necessary for it. All subject to articles 1422 to 1425.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1448

The spouse who has obtained separation as to property must contribute, in proportion to his or her faculties and those of his or her spouse, both to the expenses of the household and to those of the e…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1445

The application and the judgment of separation of property must be published under the conditions and under the sanctions provided for by the Code of Civil Procedure. The judgment pronouncing separati…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Liquidation and partition of the community.

Article 1467

Once the community has been dissolved, each of the spouses takes back any property that had not entered the community, if it exists in kind, or property that has been subrogated to it. The joint estat…

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