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Showing 50215030 of 58419 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 1-7-2003 n° 861

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Provisions applicable to investment services providers relating to the design and distribution of financial instruments

Article L533-24-1-1

Investment service providers other than portfolio management companies that design financial instruments for sale to clients and investment service providers that offer, recommend or market financial…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Judicial supervision, house arrest and pre-trial detention

Article 137-2

Judicial supervision is ordered by the investigating judge, who rules after hearing the public prosecutor's submissions. Judicial supervision may also be ordered by the liberty and custody judge, when…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Judicial supervision, house arrest and pre-trial detention

Article 137-3

The liberty and custody judge rules by means of a reasoned order. When he orders or extends pre-trial detention or rejects an application for release, the order must include a statement of the legal a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Judicial supervision, house arrest and pre-trial detention

Article 137-4

When the examining magistrate receives a request from the public prosecutor to remand the person in custody, and considers that this detention is not justified, and decides not to transfer the case fi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Public authorities, public institutions or public utilities

Article 1042 B

The tax rules concerning gratuitous transfers to local authorities or public inter-municipal cooperation establishments with their own tax status of property allocated to student accommodation are def…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Public authorities, public institutions or public utilities

Article 1042 A

Transfers of property, rights and obligations resulting from mergers or the creation of new communes are exempt from registration duty, land registration tax and the contribution provided for in artic…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Fees charged by commercial court registrars

Article A743-15

I.-All of the services provided by the commercial court clerk in the context of a judicial liquidation procedure listed under number 143 of the table referred to in Article A. 743-8 gives rise to the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE I: Provisions specific to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

Article L912-1-1

The words: "la loi n° 2005-882 du 2 août 2005 en faveur des petites et moyennes entreprises" and the words: "la loi n° 2005-882 du 2 août 2005 précitée" appearing in the third and fourth paragraphs of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article R23-1

When the examining magistrate orders that the part of the bond allocated to guarantee the rights of the victim or the creditor of a maintenance debt be paid to them in advance, they shall be notified…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 144

Pre-trial detention may only be ordered or extended if it is shown, in the light of the precise and detailed elements resulting from the proceedings, that it constitutes the sole means of achieving on…

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