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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Furnishings

Article 530

Any annuity established in perpetuity for the price of the sale of real estate, or as a condition of the transfer for valuable consideration or free of charge of real estate, is essentially redeemable…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Rights of the usufructuary

Article 598

He shall also enjoy, in the same manner as the owner, mines and quarries which are in operation at the opening of the usufruct; and nevertheless, if it is a question of an operation which cannot be ma…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Composition of the Criminal Appeals Division

Article 511

The number and day of correctional hearings are fixed at the end of each judicial year for the following judicial year by a joint decision of the first president and the public prosecutor taken after…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Property in relation to those who own it

Article 542

Communal assets are those to whose ownership or proceeds the inhabitants of one or more communes have an acquired right.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: The right of accession to that which unites with and incorporates into the thing

Article 551

Everything that unites with and incorporates into the thing belongs to the owner, according to the rules that will hereinafter be established.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: The parties.

Article 550

Subject to articles 905-2,909 and 910, the cross-appeal or the provoked appeal may be lodged, in any event, even if the person lodging it is precluded from acting as principal. In the latter case, how…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Furnishings

Article 534

The words "furniture" include only furniture intended for the use and decoration of flats, such as tapestries, beds, seats, mirrors, clocks, tables, porcelain and other objects of this nature. Paintin…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Opposition.

Article 578

Anyone who allows himself to be judged a second time by default is no longer entitled to lodge a new opposition.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Third-party proceedings.

Article 590

The judge hearing the third party opposition as principal or incidental may suspend enforcement of the contested judgment.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Furnishings

Article 532

Materials coming from the demolition of a building, those assembled to build a new one, are movable until they are employed by the workman in a construction.

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