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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Opposition

Article 489

The judgment by default is null and void in all its provisions, if the accused lodges an opposition to its execution.He may, however, limit this opposition to the civil provisions of the judgment..

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 4: Criminal provisions

Article L312-14

Organising a public sporting event in a non-approved venue or in breach of the requirements imposed by the approval is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Presentation and payment

Article L131-38

A person who pays a cheque without a stop payment is presumed to be validly discharged. The drawee who pays an endorsable cheque is obliged to check the regularity of the series of endorsements, but n…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Donation and use of gametes.

Article L1244-6

A doctor may access non-identifying medical information, in the event of medical necessity, for the benefit of a person conceived from gametes derived from a donation or for the benefit of a gamete do…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: POLICE

Article L2216-1

The municipality's liability is eliminated or mitigated where a State authority has substituted itself for the mayor in implementing police measures, in circumstances or under conditions not provided…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Opening of estates, universal title and seisin

Article 722

Agreements the purpose of which is to create rights or waive rights to all or part of an estate that has not yet been opened or property dependent thereon are effective only in cases where they are au…

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

Article 1422

The spouses may not, one without the other, dispose of community property inter vivos, gratuitously. Nor may they, one without the other, assign any of that property to guarantee the debt of a third p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Criminal provisions.

Article L4212-5

The sale to the public of medicinal plants, whether mixed or not, in all public places, in private homes and in shops other than pharmacies and herbalists' shops, is punishable by a fine of €3,750.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Investments

Article R385-12

Supplementary occupational pension funds may grant unsecured loans under the conditions set out in the fourth to seventh paragraphs of 1° of article R. 332-13.

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE V: Economic interest groupings.

Article L251-3

The economic interest group may be formed without capital. The rights of its members may not be represented by negotiable securities. Any clause to the contrary is deemed unwritten.

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