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Showing 3140 of 36450 articles for Art. BAF 3/11 n° 106

French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Absentees

Article 1066

Applications relating to a person's declaration of absence shall be brought before the judicial court within whose jurisdiction the person resides or last resided. Failing this, the competent court is…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title I: Individuals

Article 1061

Copies of extracts kept in the civil register may be issued to any interested party. They may only be issued with the authorisation of the Public Prosecutor where an indication of cancellation has bee…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Absentees

Article 1067

The claim is lodged, investigated and judged as in non-contentious matters.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Absentees

Article 1064

…margin of the birth certificate, in accordance with the procedures set out in the articles 1057 to 1061. In the case of people born abroad, the documents are sent to the central civil status departme…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Absentees

Article 1065

Where the decision has been handed down by the guardianship judge, the transmission is made by the clerk of the judicial court within fifteen days of the expiry of the time limits for appeal.Where the…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title I: Individuals

Article 1060

The entry made in the margin of the birth record, of judgments which reject an application or terminate a measure appearing in the civil register, is automatically supplemented by the indication that…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Absentees

Article 1062

Applications relating to the presumption of absence shall be submitted to the guardianship judge exercising his functions at the judicial court within whose jurisdiction the person whose presumption o…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Absentees

Article 1063

The application shall be made, investigated and judged in accordance with the rules applicable to guardianship of adults.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Absentees

Article 1068

The time limit within which extracts from the judgment declaring absence must be published may not exceed six months from the pronouncement of that judgment; it shall be mentioned in the extracts subm…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2c: Marine fishing companies

Article 44 nonies

The taxable profits of small-scale fishermen, subject to a real tax regime, who set up for the first time between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 2010, are determined, for the first sixty months of act…

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