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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal proceedings

Article L623-32-1

Natural persons guilty of the offence provided for in Article L. 623-32 may also be ordered, at their own expense, to remove from commercial channels the objects deemed to be infringing and any thing…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Valuation of the property

Article L313-20

When the lender carries out or arranges for the valuation of the residential property financed with a loan referred to in article L. 313-1, it shall ensure that: 1° The valuation is carried out by a p…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Binding force

Article 1195

If a change in circumstances unforeseeable at the time the contract was concluded makes performance excessively onerous for a party who had not agreed to assume the risk, that party may ask its co-con…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Warranty of defects in the goods sold.

Article 1646-1

The seller of a building to be constructed is bound, as from acceptance of the work, by the obligations to which architects, contractors and other persons bound to the client by a contract for the hir…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security detention and surveillance

Article 706-53-17

After a period of three months from the final decision on detention, the person placed in detention may apply to the regional detention court for the measure to be terminated. The detention is automat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 728-10

This chapter lays down the rules applicable, with a view to facilitating the social rehabilitation of sentenced persons, to the recognition and enforcement, in a Member State of the European Union, of…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Therapeutic use exemptions

Article D232-84

Decisions granting Therapeutic Use Exemptions are forwarded by the French Anti-Doping Agency to the World Anti-Doping Agency as well as to the International Federation concerned and, where applicable,…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Donation and use of elements and products of the human body.

Article L1542-3

For their application in New Caledonia and French Polynesia:1° In Article L. 1221-3, the words: "under conditions laid down by decree" do not apply ;2° In article L. 1221-4, the last paragraph is not…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Temporary takings.

Article L3334-1

By way of derogation from the provisions of articles L. 3332-2 and L. 3332-3, the opening, by persons or companies of French or foreign nationality, of drinks outlets of any kind for consumption on th…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Specific technical provisions the popular retirement savings plan

Article R144-30

The transfer of a popular retirement savings plan from one insurance undertaking to another entails the transfer to the new insurance undertaking of all the technical provisions that have been set asi…

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