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Showing 26212630 of 23743 articles for Art. Cass. 13 March 2008 – counterfeit as dispossession

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V BIS : General provisions

Article R249-16

The collection, modification, consultation, communication and deletion of personal data and information are subject to a record including the identification of the user, the date, time and nature of t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V BIS : General provisions

Article R249-14

In accordance with the provisions of article 111 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 as amended relating to information technology, files and freedoms, access to data and the conditions for its rectifi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V BIS : General provisions

Article R249-10

…nts of the judicial police and officials and agents responsible for certain judicial police duties, as well as documents appended thereto; 2° Acts carried out by experts and persons required, commissi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V BIS : General provisions

Article R249-11

…ning witnesses, victims, accused persons, persons under investigation or placed under the status of assisted witness, persons prosecuted, convicted persons as well as those under investigation for the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V BIS : General provisions

Article R249-15

The right to object provided for in

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V BIS : General provisions

Article R249-9

The Ministry of Justice is authorised to create a personal data processing system known as the "digital criminal file" to be implemented in each court. The purposes of this processing, which concerns…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1448

The spouse who has obtained separation as to property must contribute, in proportion to his or her faculties and those of his or her spouse, both to the expenses of the household and to those of the e…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1445

…for by the Code of Civil Procedure. The judgment pronouncing separation of property shall go back, as regards its effects, to the day of the application. A mention of the judgment shall be made in th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1449

The separation of property pronounced by the court has the effect of placing the spouses under the regime of articles 1536 et seq. The court, in pronouncing the separation, may order that a spouse pay…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1446

The creditors of a spouse may not apply on his or her behalf for separation as to property.

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