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Showing 14911500 of 46223 articles for Art. CA Paris 22 January 2013 · Cass. 1re civ. 3 November 1965 · Cass. 3e civ. 8 January 1992

French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Reporting of gifts.

Article 848

…the son comes only by representation, he must return what had been given to his father, even in the case where he would have repudiated his estate.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
General provisions

Article 802

…on pain of nullity or a failure to observe essential formalities, any court, including the Cour de cassation, which is seised of an application for annulment or which notes such an irregularity of it…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article R50-84

…cordance with Article 706-25-20, the Anti-Terrorism Public Prosecutor shall refer the matter to the Paris Sentence Enforcement Court before the end of the detention, for confirmation of the resumption…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 1: Conciliation delegated to a judicial conciliator

Article 823

…entitled to assist him before the judge. The parties are further advised that, pursuant to articles 824 and 826, the provisions of which are reproduced, the court may be seised for the purposes of hom…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Effects of acceptance of the succession up to the amount of the net assets.

Article 802

Despite forfeiture or revocation of acceptance up to the amount of net assets, estate creditors and legatees of sums of money retain exclusive rights of pursuit over the assets mentioned in the first…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Effects of acceptance of the succession up to the amount of the net assets.

Article 803

The costs of sealing, inventorying and accounting are borne by the estate. They are paid as preferential partition costs.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Effects of acceptance of the succession up to the amount of the net assets.

Article 801

As long as the right to accept is not time-barred against him, the heir may revoke his acceptance up to the amount of the net assets by accepting purely and simply. This acceptance is retroactive to t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Effects of acceptance of the succession up to the amount of the net assets.

Article 800

…ith, to include in the inventory of the assets or liabilities of the succession, or who has not allocated to the payment of the creditors of the succession the value of the assets retained or the pric…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Disciplinary powers, relations with statutory auditors and cooperation

Article R782-8

I. - Are applicable in New Caledonia, subject to the adaptations mentioned in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in the r…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Disciplinary powers, relations with statutory auditors and cooperation

Article R783-8

…low shall apply in French Polynesia, subject to the adaptations mentioned in II, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from th…

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