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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 98

Subject to the requirements of judicial information, any communication or disclosure without the authorisation of the person under investigation or his successors in title or the signatory or recipien…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 196

The Public Prosecutor acts in the same way when he receives, subsequent to a decision by the Investigating Chamber to dismiss the case, documents which appear to him to contain new charges under the t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Deliberations of the Assize Court

Article 363

If the fact held against the accused does not fall or no longer falls under the application of criminal law, or if the accused is found not guilty, the assize court pronounces the accused acquitted. I…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Transferable debt securities.

Article L228-84

The representatives of the group shall declare as liabilities of the company's receivership or liquidation, for all the bondholders of this group, the principal amount of the bonds remaining in circul…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: PROCEDURE BEFORE THE FRENCH OFFICE FOR THE PROTECTION OF REFUGEES AND APATRIDS

Article L531-30

The accelerated procedure may only be implemented in respect of unaccompanied minors in the cases provided for in Article L. 531-24 or if the applicant's presence in France constitutes a serious threa…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Invalidity

Article 1184

Where the cause of nullity affects only one or more clauses of the contract, it entails nullity of the entire act only if that clause or those clauses constituted a determining element of the commitme…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Community assets

Article 1403

Each spouse retains full ownership of his or her own property.The community is entitled only to fruits collected and not consumed. But recompense may be due to it, on dissolution of the community, for…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Procedure in the event of the disappearance of procedural documents

Article 648

When, as a result of an extraordinary cause, minutes of judgments or rulings rendered in criminal, correctional or police matters and not yet executed, or proceedings in progress and their copies draw…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession of medical electroradiology manipulator

Article L4351-2

Persons holding the diplomas, certificates or titles mentioned in article L. 4351-3 or holding the authorisations provided for in article L. 4351-4, and registered on a departmental list, may practise…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article R422-53

The industrial property attorney shall refrain from any canvassing and advertising not authorised under the conditions provided for in article R. 423-2. He draws up an indicative scale of the amount o…

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