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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The nature of a loan for use.

Article 1875

A loan for use is a contract by which one of the parties delivers a thing to the other for use, with the onus on the taker to return it after use.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The nature of a loan for use.

Article 1879

The commitments which are formed by a loan for use pass to the heirs of the one who lends, and to the heirs of the one who borrows.But if one has lent only in consideration of the borrower, and to him…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The nature of a consumer loan.

Article 1897

If it is ingots or commodities that have been lent, whatever the increase or decrease in their price, the debtor must always return the same quantity and quality, and must return only that.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The nature of a consumer loan.

Article 1892

A consumer loan is a contract by which one of the parties delivers to the other a certain quantity of things that are consumed by use, on the obligation of the latter to return as many of the same kin…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Commitments of the borrower.

Article 1880

The borrower is obliged to take reasonable care of the custody and preservation of the thing lent. He may only use it for the purpose determined by its nature or by the agreement; all on pain of damag…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Commitments of the borrower.

Article 1883

If the thing has been valued by lending it, the loss which occurs, even by fortuitous event, is for the borrower, if there is no agreement to the contrary.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The nature of a consumer loan.

Article 1896

The rule set out in the previous article does not apply if the loan was made in ingots.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 6: Data processing by the Commission for access to third-party donor data by persons born of medically assisted procreation

Article R2143-18

…icable, subcontractors recruited under the conditions provided for in Article 28 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016, for the purposes of designing, developing, maintaining and hosting the pr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Holders of the state diploma

Article D4321-18

…ject to successful completion of a first university year and obtaining 60 European credits from the 2016-2017 academic year. The conditions for admission to these institutes are set by order of the mi…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Financial and accounting system

Article R211-18

…L. 719-6 of the Education Code and, unless otherwise provided for in articles R. 211-18-1 to R. 211-18-6, by the decree implementing them.

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