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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section 3: Provisions common to appeals and actions for annulment

Article 1497

The first president ruling in summary proceedings or, as soon as the matter is referred to him, the Conseiller de la mise en état may: 1° Where the award is subject to provisional enforcement, stay or…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: The arbitration award

Article 1483

The provisions of Article 1480, those of article 1481 relating to the names of the arbitrators and the date of the award and those in Article 1482 concerning the statement of reasons for the award are…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: The arbitration agreement.

Article 1448

Where a dispute arising under an arbitration agreement is brought before a State court, the latter shall declare that it has no jurisdiction unless the arbitral tribunal has not yet been seised and th…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: The arbitration award

Article 1486

Claims made pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 1485 shall be submitted within three months of notification of the award. Unless otherwise agreed, the corrected or completed award shall be mad…

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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 2: Liquidation and partition of the community.

Article 1476

The partition of the community, in all that concerns its forms, the maintenance of indivision and preferential allocation, the licitation of property, the effects of the partition, the guarantee and t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Obligations and contributions to liabilities after dissolution.

Article 1483

Each of the spouses may only be sued for half of the debts that had entered the community on the part of his or her spouse. After the partition and except in the case of concealment, he or she is only…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter V: Exequatur

Article 1487

The arbitral award may only be enforced by virtue of an exequatur order issued by the court within whose jurisdiction the award was made.The procedure relating to the application for exequatur is not…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: The order for payment.

Article 1422

…hatever the method of service, the opposition period provided for in the first paragraph of Article 1416 suspends enforcement. Any opposition lodged within this period is also suspensive. The order do…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Cadastral changes and changes affecting the tax debtor

Article 1402

Cadastral transfers resulting from changes in ownership are carried out at the request of the owners concerned. No change to the legal status of an immovable property may be the subject of a transfer…

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