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Showing 611620 of 61852 articles for Art. Cass. 1re civ. 4 December 2013 · Cass. com. 15 November 2005 · Cass. com. 2 April 1974 · Cass. com. 13 May 1980

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Commencement of duties.

Article R6152-15

Practitioners appointed under 4° or 5° of article R. 6152-7 are classified in the post of hospital practitioner, taking into account :1° The legal length of national service and compulsory military se…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 16: Medical activity

Article R6123-156

…rt of the shared medical project of the regional hospital grouping referred to in II of Article L. 6132-1, the possibility of transferring any patient whose state of health so requires to an inpatient…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Joint ownership of acquests.

Article 1575

…tion claim are added, in order to subject them to the same regulation, the sums of which the spouse may otherwise be a creditor to his or her spouse, for values provided during the marriage and other…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Agreement procedure

Article 1552

Any interested third party may, with the agreement of the parties and the technician, intervene in the operations carried out by the technician. The technician will inform the third party that he/she…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Agreement procedure

Article 1549

…t his mission conscientiously, diligently and impartially, respecting the adversarial principle. He may only be dismissed with the unanimous consent of the parties.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Contracts awarded by the national councils of the orders of the medical professions

Article R.4122-4-29

…with an adapted procedure, any candidate or tenderer whose application or tender has been rejected may obtain the reasons for this rejection within a period of fifteen days from receipt of his reques…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Joint ownership of acquests.

Article 1576

…counters serious difficulties in paying it in full as soon as the liquidation is closed, the judges may grant him or her periods not exceeding five years, on condition that he or she provides security…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Arbitration proceedings and awards

Article 1509

The arbitration agreement may, directly or by reference to arbitration rules or rules of procedure, regulate the procedure to be followed in the arbitral proceedings. Where the arbitration agreement i…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Withdrawal clause in return for compensation.

Article 1514

…the beneficiary spouse's share; if its value exceeds that share, a balance is payable. The spouses may agree that the compensation due by the levier will be set off subsidiarily against his or her ri…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Contracts awarded by the national councils of the orders of the medical professions

Article R.4122-4-24

If the National Council uses the tender procedure, it cannot negotiate with the tenderers. It may only ask them to specify the content of their tender. Where the national council uses the procedure wi…

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