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Showing 22512260 of 65128 articles for Art. Cass. 1re civ. 11 October 1989 · Cass. 1re civ. 15 July 1993 · Cass. com. 1 October 1996 · Cass. 1re civ. 2 June 1981 · Cass. 1re civ. 12 July 1994 · Cass. 3e civ. 14 November 2007

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Expenditure

Article L5217-12-1

Metropolises' compulsory expenditure includes in particular: 1° Office and printing costs for the department of the metropolis and the costs of conserving the archives of the metropolis and the compen…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions.

Article R1112-15

All necessary measures are taken to ensure that the families of sick or injured people hospitalised in an emergency are informed.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Publication in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales.

Article R123-158

…sponsible for the supervision of the legal entity adapts the information provided for in Article R. 123-157.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Publication in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales.

Article R123-156

…ce in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales shall contain for natural persons: 1° The registration references; 2° The name, customary name, pseudonym and forenames of the register…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Payment and early release.

Article L3324-11

…ees and, where applicable, to the beneficiaries referred to in the second paragraph of article L. 3323-6 and the third paragraph of article L. 3324-2, the sums due to them when these do not reach an a…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Investment allowances

Article 411-15

The investment of sums entered in the automatic cinema production account under 2° of article…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article L225-124

…r share or transferred in ownership loses the double voting right allocated pursuant to articles L. 225-123 and L. 22-10-46. However, a transfer as a result of inheritance, the liquidation of communit…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Action by the administrative authority

Article D1233-11

…ies, Competition, Consumption, Labour and Employment sends the following documents to the employer: 1° The written notice referred to in article L. 1233-56, in the event of redundancy of ten or more e…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Coordination of prevention.

Article R4511-11

…rtaking and the heads of external undertakings shall make the information mentioned in article R. 4511-10 available: 1° To the competent social and economic committee; 2° To the competent occupational…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Obligations of intermediary payment service providers and cooperation obligations

Article L722-14

…iori or real-time checks to detect any absence of the following information on the payer and payee: 1° Where the payment service provider of the payer and payee are located in the territory of the Fre…

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