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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The date on which divorce takes effect

Article 262

The divorce agreement or judgment may be relied on as against third parties, as regards the property of the spouses, from the day on which the formalities of mention in the margin prescribed by the ru…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Cases and procedure for legal separation

Article 297

A spouse against whom an application for divorce is made may make a counterclaim for legal separation. However, where the main application for divorce is based on the permanent alteration of the marri…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions for import and export.

Article 21

In the event of mobilisation, in the event of clear aggression requiring the country to provide for its own defence, in periods of external tension when circumstances so require, the Government may re…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2423

…le for land registration on the filing of two forms dated, signed and certified as true by the signatory of the certificate of identity provided for in articles 5 and 6 of the decree of 4 January 1955…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2432

…en a provisional registration of a judicial mortgage has been made, the provisions of articles 2429 to 2431 apply to the definitive registration and its renewal. The starting date for the time limits…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2429

The registration preserves the mortgage until the date set by the creditor in accordance with the following provisions. If the principal of the secured obligation is to be discharged on one or more sp…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2426

…note, in the register prescribed by Article 2447 below, of the deposit of the slips, and shall hand to the applicant both the title or the copy of the title, and one of the slips, at the foot of which…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2424

For the purposes of their registration, mortgages on the lots of an immovable subject to the status of co-ownership are deemed not to encumber the share of the common parts included in these lots. How…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2425

Subrogations to mortgages, discharges, reductions, cessions of anteriority and transfers that have been granted, extensions of time limits, changes of domicile and, in general, all changes, particular…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2421

…istered with the service responsible for land registration of the location of the property, subject to the exception provided for in the second paragraph of Article 2418. Registration, which is never…

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