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French General Tax CodeIn force
IIa: Second-hand goods, works of art, collectors' items and antiques

Article 297 C

For each supply of second-hand goods, works of art, collectors' items or antiques, reselling taxable persons may apply the value added tax rules applicable to other taxable persons.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 4: Closure of examination and request for reopening

Article L531-36

When the applicant informs the Office that their asylum application has been withdrawn, the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons may close the examination of this applica…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Halls, markets and public weights

Article L2224-25

In localities where it is not necessary to establish public weights, the duties of weigher, measurer and gauge may be entrusted by the representative of the State in the department to citizens of reco…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L2253-4

Securities allocated to guarantee the management of the board of directors are inalienable.The disposal of the other securities mentioned in article L. 2253-2 may only take place by virtue of a delibe…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Court-appointed estate agents.

Article 814-1

In all circumstances, the heir accepting up to the amount of the net assets may ask the judge to appoint any qualified person as mandatary of the succession for the purpose of substituting him in the…

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

Article 999

A French person who is in a foreign country may make his testamentary dispositions by private deed, as prescribed in Article 970, or by authentic instrument, with the forms customary in the place wher…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1094

The spouse, either by marriage contract or during the marriage, may, in the event that he leaves no children or descendants, dispose in favour of the other spouse in property, of all that he could dis…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Offer and acceptance

Article 1114

The offer, which may be made to a specific or unspecified person, includes the essential elements of the proposed contract and expresses the offeror's intention to be bound in the event of acceptance.…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: The defence of non-performance

Article 1220

A party may suspend performance of its obligation if it is clear that the other party will not perform when due and if the consequences of such non-performance are sufficiently serious for the party.…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Redemption option.

Article 1665

The purchaser with a pact of redemption exercises all the rights of his seller; he may prescribe both against the true master and against those who claim rights or mortgages on the thing sold.

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