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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Procedure with negotiation

Article R2124-3

The contracting authority may award its contracts using the procedure with negotiation in the following cases:1° When the need cannot be met without adapting immediately available solutions;2° When th…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Procedure with negotiation

Article R2124-4

The contracting entity may freely award its contracts using the procedure with negotiation.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Call for tenders

Article R2124-2

The purchaser is free to choose between the following forms of invitation to tender:1° Open invitation to tender when any interested economic operator may submit a tender;2° Restricted invitation to t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 736

Where the deceased leaves no posterity, brothers, sisters or descendants of the latter, his father and mother succeed to him, each for half.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 738-1

Where only the father or mother survives and the deceased has neither posterity nor brothers or sisters nor descendants of the latter, but leaves one or more ascendants of a branch other than that of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 740

In the absence of an heir of the first three orders, the succession devolves to the collateral relatives of the deceased other than brothers and sisters and the descendants of the latter.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 734

In the absence of a spouse entitled to inherit, the parents are called upon to succeed as follows: 1° Children and their descendants; 2° Father and mother; brothers and sisters and the descendants of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 737

Where the father and mother predeceased the deceased and the deceased leaves no descendants, the brothers and sisters of the deceased or their descendants succeed to the deceased, to the exclusion of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 739

In the absence of an heir of the first two orders, the succession devolves to ascendants other than the father and mother.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 738

Where the father and mother survive and the deceased has no descendants but brothers and sisters or their descendants, one quarter of the estate devolves to each of the father and mother and the remai…

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