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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Liability for defective products

Article 1245-6

If the producer cannot be identified, the seller, the lessor, with the exception of a financial lessor or a lessor assimilated to a financial lessor, or any other professional supplier, is liable for…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Compensation for loss resulting from non-performance of the contract

Article 1231-6

Damages and interest due for delay in payment of an obligation to pay a sum of money consist of interest at the legal rate, from the date of the formal notice.These damages and interest are due withou…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General rules

Article 1347-6

The surety may set off what the creditor owes to the principal debtor. A joint and several debtor may rely on set-off of what the creditor owes to one of his co-obligors to have the latter's divided s…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article 1342-6

Failing any other designation by law, contract or judge, payment must be made at the debtor's domicile.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Agreements relating to the exercise of undivided rights in the absence of a usufructuary.

Article 1873-6

…divided co-owners to the extent of his powers, either for civil acts or in court, both as plaintiff and defendant. He is obliged to state the names of all the undivided co-owners in the first procedur…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Judgments of the Cour de cassation

Article 612-1

…s to the proceedings who have not lodged an appeal. A convicted person who has not lodged an appeal and in whose favour the annulment of the conviction has been extended pursuant to the provisions of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Judgments of the Cour de cassation

Article 618-1

…pplicant to pay to the other party the sum it determines, in respect of costs not paid by the State and incurred by the latter. The parties may produce evidence of the sums they claim and the court sh…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Judgments of the Cour de cassation

Article 609-1

…ent of an investigating chamber ruling on an appeal against a settlement order, it remits the trial and the parties to another investigating chamber which becomes competent to continue the proceedings…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VII: Challenges

Article 674-2

The competent chamber shall rule within one month of the lodging of the application at the registry, after the challenged magistrate has made his observations.For the remainder, the provisions of Book…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689-2

For the application of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, adopted in New York on 10 December 1984, may be prosecuted and tried under the cond…

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