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Showing 50615070 of 10664 articles for Art. CJEU – Pronuptia – Case 161/84 – 28 Jan. 1986

French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Sale of real estate and businesses belonging to minors under guardianship or adults under guardianship.

Article 1271

…the property belongs at the same time to capable adults and if the sale is pursued by them. In this case, it is carried out in accordance with the rules laid down for judicial divisions.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title I: Agreement-based mediation and conciliation

Article 1533

…an activity, the required qualification with regard to the nature of the dispute or justify, as the case may be, training or experience adapted to the practice of mediation.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section 5: Other remedies

Article 1502

Recourse in revision is available against the arbitral award in the cases provided for judgments in Article 595 and under the conditions provided for in Articles 594,596,597 and 601 to 603. The appeal…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 771-2

…son sentence received in the criminal record pursuant to 1° and 8° of Article 768, including in the cases provided for in Article 771, the automated national criminal record registers and stores data…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Some specific time limits and starting points.

Article 2226

…after ten years from the date of consolidation of the initial or aggravated injury.However, in the case of injury caused by torture or acts of barbarism, or by violence or sexual assault committed ag…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Obligations of the agent.

Article 1994

…esignation of a person, and the person he has chosen was notoriously incapable or insolvent. In all cases, the principal may act directly against the person whom the agent has substituted.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title III: Security agents

Article 2488-10

…ng from their safekeeping or management, subject to the exercise of a right of resale and excluding cases of fraud.The opening of safeguard, receivership, judicial liquidation, professional recovery,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Assistance for employees on part-time work

Article L5122-2

…in articles L. 6313-1 and L. 6314-1 carried out in particular as part of the training plan. In this case, the percentage mentioned in II of article L. 5122-1 is increased under conditions laid down by…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Payment of training costs

Article L6323-23

…additional funding or within the limit of the entitlement acquired from the personal account in the case of additional funding. This additional funding corresponds to any individual training aid for t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter Va: Electronic trade in medicinal products by a dispensing pharmacy

Article L5125-37

In the case of a grouping of several pharmacies referred to in article L. 5125-5, only one website may be created and operated, attached to the licence resulting from the grouping. The creation of the…

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