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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: General terms and conditions of contracts

Article L251-1

The provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table, shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands a…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Law applicable to cross-border contracts

Article L253-2

…llis and Futuna Islands, article L. 232-4 is worded as follows: "Art. L. 232-4 -Where the parties have chosen the law of a State other than France to govern the contract, the court before which that l…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Law applicable to cross-border contracts

Article L253-1

The following shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations provided for in Article L. 253-2, the provisions of the article mentioned in the left-hand column of the table be…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER I: Purpose

Article L1521-1

…nferred on them by law, set up local semi-public companies which associate them with one or more private individuals and, where applicable, with other public individuals to carry out development or co…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: SEMI-PUBLIC COMPANIES WITH A SINGLE OPERATION

Article L1541-1

I. - Within the scope of its powers other than the exercise of missions of sovereignty, a territorial authority or a group of territorial authorities may create, with at least one economic operator sh…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: SEMI-PUBLIC COMPANIES WITH A SINGLE OPERATION

Article L1541-2

…tract to the single-operations semi-public company set up shall be carried out by a single public invitation to tender complying with the procedures applicable to concession contracts or public procur…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE IV: SEMI-PUBLIC COMPANIES WITH A SINGLE OPERATION

Article L1541-3

I. - In the event of the transformation, merger or attachment of the shareholding territorial authority of a single-operating semi-public company within another territorial authority or grouping of te…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: Dilatory defences.

Article 109

The judge may grant the defendant time to call a guarantor. The proceedings shall continue on the expiry of the period within which the guarantor may appear, unless the guarantee claim is decided sepa…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: Dilatory defences.

Article 111

The beneficiary of a time limit to make an inventory and deliberate may not propose its other exceptions until after the expiry of this time limit.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: Dilatory defences.

Article 108

…udge must suspend the proceedings where the party requesting it enjoys either a period for taking inventory and deliberating, or the benefit of discussion or division, or some other waiting period und…

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