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Showing 37613770 of 30455 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. avis 20-10-2022 n° 22-70.011 B

French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Advertising

Article L312-10

In all advertising, it is forbidden to state that a credit transaction or agreement, or a credit transaction consisting of grouping together previous loans, may be granted without any information enab…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Denunciation by all signatory employers or employees.

Article L2261-10

Where the denunciation is made by all the signatory employers or all the signatory employees, the agreement or arrangement continues to have effect until the entry into force of the agreement or arran…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Common provisions.

Article L814-10

…811-2 or the first paragraph of II of Article L. 812-2, are placed under the supervision of the Public Prosecutor and are subject, in their professional activity, to inspections by the public author…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter VII: Review in civil matters

Article 1031-9

…tion of their surnames, forenames and domicile. Where the interested party is deceased or declared absent, the applicant must indicate the surname and forenames as well as the date of death or declare…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Special provisions

Article L7342-10

…pproval, shall fall within the jurisdiction of the judicial court whose seat and jurisdiction shall be determined by decree, to the exclusion of any other contentious or administrative appeal. The app…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Authorisation

Article R1231-10

…he donor and to the doctor in charge of the service, department or care structure of the health establishment in which the removal is envisaged, who forwards it to the director of the establishment.In…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Continuous post-operative monitoring.

Article D6124-101

Patients admitted to a post-interventional monitoring room are cared for by one or more paramedical staff, or midwives for the procedures provided for in 1° of article D. 6124-98, assigned exclusively…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Medically assisted procreation with third-party donors

Article 342-10

…rse to medical assistance requiring the intervention of a third-party donor must give their consent beforehand to a notary, who will inform them of the consequences of their act with regard to filiati…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: European patents and European patents with unitary effect

Article L614-10

Except in cases of nullity actions and by derogation from the first paragraph of Article L. 614-7, where a French-language translation has been produced under the conditions set out in the second para…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R5151-10

I.-Legal persons governed by public law and legal persons governed by private law entrusted with a public service mission who develop and make available the online services mentioned in 3° of II of ar…

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