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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter I: Common provisions

Article R621-5

For the application of article…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article R331-5

The period within which the creditor holding a published security interest in the immovable by destination must declare his claim is two months from the date of the summons served on him. The declarat…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: TEMPORARY PROTECTION

Article L581-5

A foreign national may be excluded from temporary protection in the following cases:1° There is serious or concordant evidence making it likely that he or she may have committed a crime against peace,…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Economic aid

Article L2251-5

Locations, their groupings, the collectivity of Saint-Barthélemy and the collectivity of Saint-Martin may, under conditions set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, award subsidies to existing establishme…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L2311-5

The surplus from the operating section for the financial year ended, together with the previous result carried forward, is allocated in full at the earliest budgetary decision following the approval o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: General provisions

Article L2241-5

Deliberations by which the administrative boards responsible for the management of communal public establishments change in whole or in part the allocation of premises or immovable or movable objects…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Compulsory expenditure

Article L2321-5

The communes whose inhabitants represent, in respect of one year, more than 1% of the parturients or more than 1% of the deceased in a public health establishment comprising a maternity unit and situa…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 900-5

The application is admissible only ten years after the death of the disposing person or, in the case of successive applications, ten years after the judgment ordering the previous review. The person r…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Business management

Article 1301-5

If the manager's action does not meet the conditions of business management but nevertheless benefits the master of that business, the master must indemnify the manager according to the rules of unjus…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1397-5

Where a change to the matrimonial property regime occurs by application of a foreign law governing the effects of the union, the spouses shall carry out the publicity formalities provided for in the C…

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