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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Reduction in the number of candidates

Article R2142-18

Where the number of candidates satisfying the selection criteria is less than the minimum number indicated, the purchaser may continue the procedure with these candidates.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 5: Electronic catalogues

Article R2162-52

Where the use of electronic means of communication is required, the purchaser may require that tenders be presented in the form of an electronic catalogue or that they include such a catalogue.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Shares.

Article L228-9

The cash share shall be registered until fully paid up.Failure to comply with the first paragraph may result in the cancellation of the said share.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Exercise by a taxpayer of shares belonging to the municipality

Article L2132-7

Where a judgment has been handed down, the taxpayer may only appeal or appeal to the Court of Cassation under a new authorisation.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Rural policing

Article L2213-21

The mayor may prescribe that millstones of grain, straw and fodder, etc., must be placed at a specified distance from dwellings and the public highway.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Legal regime of joint ownership.

Article 815-1

The undivided co-owners may enter into agreements relating to the exercise of their undivided rights, in accordance with articles 1873-1 to 1873-18.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Other debts

Article 879

This right may be exercised by any act by which a creditor manifests to a competing creditor his intention to be preferred over a specific asset.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Exceptions to the rule that gifts inter vivos are irrevocable.

Article 953

An inter vivos gift may be revoked only on the grounds of non-performance of the conditions under which it was made, ingratitude, and the birth of children.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 7: Executors.

Article 1027

If there are several accepting executors, one of them may act in default of the others, unless the testator has provided otherwise or divided their office.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2 : Special rules on the form of certain wills.

Article 996

The testator shall be read, in the presence of witnesses, the provisions of article 984, 987 or 994, as the case may be, and mention of this reading shall be made in the will.

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