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Showing 401410 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 Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

Article 706-14-2

…ture of an offence and meet the conditions laid down in Article 706-3 of this Code or in article L. 126-1 of the Insurance Code, obtain financial assistance from the Fonds de garantie des victimes des…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Qualities and conditions required to enter into marriage

Article 148

Minors may not enter into marriage without the consent of their father and mother; in the event of dissension between the father and mother, this division takes precedence.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: The order for payment.

Article 1408

The creditor may, in the application for an order for payment, request that in the event of opposition, the case be immediately referred to the court he considers competent.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Service regulations and pricing

Article L2224-12-2

…he rules relating to drinking water and sanitation charges and the sums provided for by Articles L. 1331-1 to L. 1331-10 of the Public Health Code are established by deliberation of the municipal coun…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Control of the profession

Article L821-12-2

I.-For the purposes mentioned in 9° of I of Article L. 821-1, the High Council shall, at their request, communicate the information or documents that it holds or that it collects to the authorities of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Embryonic stem cell research.

Article R2151-12-2

The declaration of an embryonic stem cell research protocol provided for in Article L. 2151-6 shall be sent to the Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine by any means enabling receipt to be…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions relating to Mayotte

Article R6523-2-12

The skills operator authorised in application of article R. 6523-2-10 specifies in an appendix to the statistical and financial statement provided for in article R. 6332-31, for the territory, the amo…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Criminal proceedings

Article L716-11-2

Corporate entities held criminally liable, under the conditions set out in the'article 121-2 of the Criminal Code, for the offences defined in articles L. 716-9 to L. 716-11 shall incur, in addition t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Offences relating to market undertakings and clearing houses

Article L764-12

…n the right-hand column of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from L. 464-1 Order no. 2007-1490 of 18 October 2007 L. 464-2Order no. 2007-544 of 12 April 2007

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French General Tax CodeIn force
12°: Reunification of usufruct with bare ownership

Article 1133

Subject to the provisions of article 1020, the reunification of the usufruct with the bare ownership does not give rise to any tax or duty where such reunification takes place by the expiry of the tim…

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