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French Consumer CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Civil penalties

Article L341-26

Subject to the provisions of the second paragraph, a creditor who grants credit without providing the borrower with the European Standardised Information Sheet referred to in Article L. 313-7 and the…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Civil penalties

Article L341-25

Subject to the provisions of the second paragraph, a creditor who grants credit without complying with the conditions, applicable to pre-contractual information, laid down by the provisions of article…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Enforcement of the vendor's lien and pledge of the business and purging of registered debts.

Article L143-2

A landlord seeking to terminate the lease of the building in which a registered business is operated must notify the previously registered creditors of his request, at the address declared by them in…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Total or partial withdrawal of parental authority and withdrawal of the exercise of parental authority

Article 378-2

The exercise of parental authority and visiting and accommodation rights of a parent prosecuted or convicted, even if not definitively, for a crime committed against the other parent are suspended ips…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Schools of territorial chambers of commerce and industry and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article L711-21

Public law employees placed at the disposal of a consular higher education establishment choose whether to exercise their right to vote and stand as a candidate in elections for staff representatives…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Schools of territorial chambers of commerce and industry and regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article L711-20

The staff representatives on the works councils of the consular higher education establishments are elected from lists drawn up by the trade union organisations for each college. The committees compri…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Divorce for fault

Article 244

The reconciliation of the spouses that has taken place since the alleged events prevents them from being invoked as grounds for divorce. The judge will then declare the application inadmissible. A new…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Divorce for fault

Article 242

Divorce may be sought by either spouse where acts constituting a serious or repeated breach of the duties and obligations of marriage are attributable to his or her spouse and make it intolerable to c…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Divorce for fault

Article 246

If an application for definitive alteration of the marriage bond and an application for fault are made concurrently, the judge shall examine the application for fault first.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Divorce for fault

Article 245

The faults of the spouse who initiated the divorce do not prevent his or her application from being examined; they may, however, remove from the facts of which he or she accuses his or her spouse the…

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