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Showing 511520 of 4120 articles for Art. CISG – Vienna Convention 1980

French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Compensatory benefits.

Article 278

In the event of divorce by mutual consent, the spouses set the amount and terms of the compensatory allowance in the agreement drawn up by private deed countersigned by lawyers or in the agreement tha…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1399

An adult under guardianship or curatorship may not enter into matrimonial agreements without being assisted in the contract by his or her guardian or curator.Failing such assistance, the annulment of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Assistance with drawing up a forward-looking jobs and skills management plan

Article D5121-7

Under an agreement signed with a single company with no more than three hundred employees, the State's financial contribution is a maximum of 15,000 euros. The agreement is signed by the Prefect. Unde…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions.

Article 265-2

The spouses may, during the divorce proceedings, enter into any agreements for the liquidation and division of their matrimonial property regime. Where the liquidation relates to property subject to l…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions relating to the creation process

Article D331-41

…Union, a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, a State party to the European Convention on Cinematographic Co-production of the Council of Europe or a European third State with…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: Scope of application

Article L611-13

…sented by them at an official or officially recognised exhibition within the meaning of the revised convention concerning international exhibitions signed at Paris on 22 November 1928. However, in the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Branch agreements and professional agreements.

Article L2232-6

…ion is expressed within a period of fifteen days from the date of notification of this agreement or convention, under the conditions laid down in article L. 2231-8.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Effects of the admissibility decision

Article R722-5

…ifies that the suspension or prohibition takes effect, depending on the case, until approval of the conventional recovery plan provided for in article L. 732-1, until the decision imposing the measure…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Judicial police

Article D8-2

…ational Directorate of Judicial Police is the national authority designated by Article 40(5) of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985.It is also the national authority res…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Acts relating primarily to economic activity

Article A444-138

…m €17,000 to €30,000 0.290% Over €30,000 0.213%2° In the case of an amendment transforming the last conventional mortgage registered prior to the entry into force of the ordonnance n° 2006-346 du 23 m…

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