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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 6: Provisions applicable in the event of a paperless challenge to fixed fines as provided for in Article 529-10

Article A37-20-2

Online challenges may be made for the following reasons: 1° The vehicle in question has been, sold, transferred, stolen, destroyed or had its number plates stolen; 2° Another driver was presumed to be…

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

Article 2423

The registration of mortgages is carried out by the department responsible for land registration on the filing of two forms dated, signed and certified as true by the signatory of the certificate of i…

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

Article 2432

When a provisional registration of a judicial mortgage has been made, the provisions of articles 2429 to 2431 apply to the definitive registration and its renewal. The starting date for the time limit…

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

Article 2429

…may not exceed fifty years. If the due date or last due date is indeterminate, in particular in the case provided for in article L. 315-1 of the Consumer Code, or if the mortgage is accompanied by a r…

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

Article 2426

…register prescribed by Article 2447 below, of the deposit of the slips, and shall hand to the applicant both the title or the copy of the title, and one of the slips, at the foot of which it shall me…

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

Article 2424

For the purposes of their registration, mortgages on the lots of an immovable subject to the status of co-ownership are deemed not to encumber the share of the common parts included in these lots. How…

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

Article 2425

…nuary 1955. This designation does not have to be certified.In addition, in the event that the modification mentioned relates only to parts of the encumbered properties, the said properties must, on pa…

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

Article 2421

…ntractual mortgages shall be registered with the service responsible for land registration of the location of the property, subject to the exception provided for in the second paragraph of Article 241…

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

Article 2431

If any of the time limits set out in articles 2428 and 2429 has not been complied with, the registration shall have no effect beyond the date on which this period expires.

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

Article 2422

Mortgage 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 est…

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