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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Operations prior to reduction

Article 918

…ct line, is deducted from the available portion. Any excess is subject to reduction. This deduction and reduction may only be requested by those of the other successors in the direct line who have not…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Operations prior to reduction

Article 919

…ee coming to the succession, provided that as regards gifts the disposition has been made expressly and outside the share of the succession. The declaration that the gift is outside the share of the s…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exercise of the reduction

Article 928

Where the reduction is carried out in kind, the donee returns the fruits of what exceeds the available portion, from the day of the donor's death, if the application for reduction is made within the y…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exercise of the reduction

Article 927

…tends such a legacy to be discharged in preference to the others, this preference shall take place; and the legacy which is the subject thereof shall be reduced only to the extent that the value of th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Central organisation

Article R515-18

…ting the objectives entrusted to the agency by the State; 2° Approval of the contract of objectives and resources signed with the State; 3° the agreements referred to in article R. 515-12 ; 4° The fin…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Tax base

Article 970

…neficiaries fall under article 795 or are organisations of the same kind covered by article 795-0 A and whose director is subject to the law of a State or territory that has entered into an administra…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Tax base

Article 972

The surrender value of surrenderable insurance contracts and capitalisation bonds or contracts expressed in units of account mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 131-1 of the Insurance Code…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IV: Deductible liabilities

Article 974

…ing on 1st January of the tax year, contracted by one of the persons mentioned in 1° of article 965 and actually borne by it, relating to taxable assets and, where applicable, in proportion to the fra…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Tax base

Article 971

…ng contract entered into under the conditions provided for in Article 2 of L. 313-7 of the Monetary and Financial Code are included, for the value of the assets mentioned in Article 965 which are the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VIII: Reporting obligations

Article 983

…conomic Area that has signed an administrative assistance agreement with France to combat tax fraud and tax evasion and a mutual assistance agreement on tax collection, nor to the persons mentioned in…

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