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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Study and research organisations

Article 93 ter

The provisions of article 39 quinquies C are applicable to study and research organisations.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Consequential acts

Article 862

Notaries, bailiffs, registrars and other public officers, lawyers and administrative authorities may not make or draw up a deed by virtue of or as a consequence of a deed compulsorily subject to regis…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
5°: Bailiffs

Article 866

With the exception of deeds in criminal matters and deeds from lawyer to lawyer, bailiffs are required to draw up their deeds and minutes in two originals; one, exempt from all tax formalities, is giv…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Extracts of deeds

Article 860

Notaries, bailiffs, court registrars, lawyers and administrative authorities must, for deeds and judicial decisions that contain provisions subject to land publicity and for attestations after death,…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Public acts

Article 853

Notaries, bailiffs, court clerks and administrative authorities are required, each time they present deeds, judgments or rulings for the formality of registration, to file with the tax department a su…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Public acts

Article 854

It is forbidden for any notary or court clerk to receive any deed in deposit without drawing up a record of the deposit. Wills deposited with notaries by testators are excepted.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Public acts

Article 855

A mention shall be made in all copies of public, civil or judicial acts, which must be registered on the minutes and copies referred to in I of l'article 658, of the receipt of duties, by a literal an…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
c: Other procedural acts

Article R40-21

If the application is dismissed, the appellant shall be ordered to pay the costs, unless the commission relieves him of them in whole or in part. The commission's decision shall entail compulsory exec…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
c: Other procedural acts

Article R40-22

The file of the criminal proceedings is returned, together with a copy of the decision, to the first president of the court of appeal for transmission to the court that handed down the decision to dis…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
c: Other procedural acts

Article R40-16

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