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Showing 7180 of 43840 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 17-3-2021 n° 19-21.463 FS-P

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Conditions for exercising regional mandates

Article L4135-19-3

In accordance with the conditions laid down in an annual resolution, the Regional Council may make a vehicle available to its members or to regional staff where this is justified by the exercise of th…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 312-17

Aid is awarded in the form of a grant, the amount of which is set as follows:1° For concept aid for fiction projects, the amount of aid is set at €7,500;2° For concept aid for animation projects, the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions specific to the clinical selection of deceased donors

Article R1241-19-3

All the information collected during the clinical selection of donors in application of II, III and V of article R. 1211-13 is recorded in a document, the purpose of which is to detect any antecedents…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 17-3

Applications to acquire, lose or be reinstated in French nationality, as well as declarations of nationality, may, under the conditions laid down by law, be made, without authorisation, from the age o…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Conflict of laws relating to parentage

Article 311-17

A voluntary acknowledgement of paternity or maternity is valid if it was made in accordance with either the personal law of its author or the personal law of the child.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 177-3

Where the civil party is a legal entity, the civil fine provided for in article 177-2 may be pronounced against its legal representative, if the latter's bad faith is established.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle II: The departmental criminal court

Article 380-17

The departmental criminal court, which sits in the same place as the assize court or, by way of exception and under the conditions set out in article 235, in another judicial court in the same départe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Right to training

Article R3123-19-3

The member of the departmental council who wishes to benefit from training under their individual right to training sends a request to the manager of the fund for financing and managing the individual…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Right to training

Article R4135-19-3

The member of the regional council who wishes to benefit from training under their individual right to training sends a request to the manager of the fund for the financing and management of the indiv…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 3: Professional liability

Article L211-17-3

This section does not apply to1° To services which do not form part of a tourist package and which relate either to air tickets or to other tickets for scheduled air travel ; 2° To services sold as pa…

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