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Showing 75717580 of 65739 articles for Art. 384 and Cass. 1ère civ. 6-3-2013 n° 11-26.728 FS-PBI

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article L225-69-1

…s which, for the third consecutive financial year, employ an average number of at least two hundred and fifty permanent employees and have net sales or a balance sheet total of at least 50 million eur…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Contracts concluded at trade fairs and exhibitions

Article L224-62-1

…French translation of these documents cannot constitute a risk to the safety or health of consumers and that the purchase of this product or service has been the subject of prior written consent by th…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Formation, amendment and duration of the contract

Article L224-25-6

Traders who offer, directly or through a third party, a supply of digital content or digital services may not make the conclusion or amendment of the terms of the contract governing that supply subjec…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: The Board of Directors and General Management

Article L22-10-6

…hird of the number of other directors. Any appointment made in breach of this article shall be null and void. This nullity does not entail the nullity of the deliberations in which the director irregu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

Article R225-60-2

…provisions of articles R. 225-34-2 to R. 225-34-6 are applicable to members representing employees and members representing employee shareholders on the supervisory board. For the application of thes…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Relations between detainees and their defence counsel

Article R57-6-5

The procedures for issuing communication permits to lawyers and the rules applicable to relations between detainees and their defence counsel are determined by the provisions of articles R. 313-14, R.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: The Examining Magistrate and the Investigating Divisions

Article D15-4-6

In the event of a request for a lawyer to be appointed ex officio made, in accordance with the provisions of Articles 113-3 or 116, before the investigating judge of a court in which there is an inves…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Nullity, dissolution and liquidation of the company.

Article R743-68-1

The company is dissolved ipso jure when all the members exercising their functions within the company simultaneously cease to exercise their functions under the conditions provided for in article L. 7…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Provisions relating to victims and civil parties

Article D49-65-1

A victim or civil party who, in accordance with the provisions of the last paragraph of Article 712-16-2, wishes to be informed of the release of a person convicted of an offence referred to in Articl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Appointment, challenge and dismissal of statutory auditors.

Article R823-6-2

…le L. 823-3-1. He shall attach to his application: 1° Documents relating to his initial appointment and, where applicable, to previous renewals of his term of office; 2° A statement of the legal and f…

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