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Showing 8190 of 42635 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 20-3-1969 n° 67-12.546

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Trial of offences committed in court

Article 675

Subject to the provisions of articles 342 and 457, offences committed at the hearing shall be tried, ex officio or at the request of the public prosecutor, in accordance with the following provisions,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VII: Challenges

Article 672

Any application for the first president of the court of appeal to be disqualified must be the subject of a request addressed to the first president of the Court of Cassation who, after obtaining the o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VII: Challenges

Article 674

None of the judges or councillors referred to in Article 668 may not disqualify himself ex officio without the authorisation of the first president of the court of appeal, whose decision, made after c…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Basis of assessment and settlement

Article 672

Sont affranchies de la pluralité édictée par article 671, in civil deeds, provisions that are independent and not subject to proportional or progressive taxation. Where a deed contains several indepen…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: General provisions

Article 678

Where they are neither exempted nor tariffed by any other article of this code, judicial decisions and deeds containing provisions subject to land registration referred to in Article 677 are subject t…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Basis of assessment and settlement

Article 671

When, in any act, whether civil, judicial or extrajudicial, there are several provisions which are independent or do not necessarily derive from each other, a particular tax or duty is due for each of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Transfers and agreements subject to a condition precedent

Article 676

With regard to transfers and agreements subject to a condition precedent, the applicable tax regime and the taxable values are determined from the date on which the condition is fulfilled. However, wh…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Basis of assessment and settlement

Article 675

Proportional or progressive taxes are rounded to the nearest euro. The fraction of a euro equal to 0.50 is counted as 1.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Basis of assessment and settlement

Article 670

Where a deed contains two provisions which are tariffed differently but which, because of their correlation, are not such as to give rise to a plurality of duties or taxes, the provision which serves…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 321-20

I.-When the pre-production of a project is carried out solely by one or more legal entities established in France, at least 50% of the pre-production expenditure mentioned in article…

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