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

Article 2422

…tgage creditors cannot usefully take out a registration on the previous owner, from the publication of the transfer made to a third party. Registration has no effect between the creditors of an estate…

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

Article 2430

…ion ceases to have effect if it has not been renewed by the date referred to in the first paragraph of Article 2429. Each renewal is required until a specified date. This date is fixed as stated in Ar…

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

Article 2427

…with the principal, where the mortgage has been granted as security for the life loan defined in I of Article L. 315-1 of the Consumer Code.

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

Article 2433

If there is no stipulation to the contrary, the costs of the registrations, the advance of which is made by the registrant, shall be borne by the debtor, and the costs of the publication of the deed o…

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

Article 2428

…cile located in metropolitan France, in the overseas departments or in the territorial collectivity of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

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

Article 2434

…tors shall be brought before the competent court, by writ served on them personally, or at the last of the domiciles elected by them on the registration slips, and this, notwithstanding the death, eit…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Pursuit of the activity of entrepreneur of live performances on an ancillary basis

Article L7122-20

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the terms and conditions for the application of this section.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: European Union regulations constituting implementing measures for article L. 412-1

Article R412-26

The enforcement measures provided for in Article L. 412-1 : 1° The provisions of Articles 1 and 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2568/91 of 11 July 1991, as amended, on the characteristics of olive…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Experimentation

Article LO1113-2

…he law referred to in Article LO 1113-1 may, within the period provided for in the second paragraph of the same Article LO 1113-1, decide to participate in the experimentation referred to by that law…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 1: General provisions

Article LO1112-2

The executive of a territorial authority alone may propose to the deliberative assembly of that authority that any draft act falling within the powers it exercises on behalf of the authority, with the…

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