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Showing 80118020 of 57851 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 3-2-1988 n° 86-16.158

French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Effects of the guarantee between the creditor and the guarantor

Article 2307

The creditor's action may not have the effect of depriving the natural person guarantor of the minimum resources set out in Article L. 731-2 of the French Consumer Code.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Effects of the guarantee between the creditor and the guarantor

Article 2304

Within one month of receipt, the guarantor shall, at its own expense, communicate to the sub-guarantor natural person the information it has received pursuant to articles 2302 and 2303.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Effects of the guarantee between the creditor and the guarantor

Article 2302

The professional creditor is obliged, before 31 March each year and at its own expense, to inform any guarantor who is a natural person of the amount of the principal of the debt, interest and other a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IIb: Provisions applicable to certain infringements of the public land transport services police regulations

Article R49-8-3

I.-The public prosecutor competent to issue the authorisation referred to in the first paragraph of II of Article 529-4 is the public prosecutor at the judicial court within whose jurisdiction the ope…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4a: The Chamber of Territories

Article D4422-30-4

I.-The election of the representatives mentioned in article D. 4422-30-2 takes place within three months of the general renewal of the municipal councils and the deliberative assemblies of the agglome…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Use for professional retraining projects

Article D4163-30-1

The provisions of the following articles are applicable to requests for vocational retraining projects: 1° Articles R. 6323-10, R. 6323-10-1, R. 6323-10-2 and R. 6323-10-4 relating to the procedures f…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Group Medical Committee

Article D6132-9-3

I.-The grouping's medical committee includes, with voting rights :1° The chairmen of the medical committees of the establishments involved in the grouping ;2° The heads of the inter-institutional clin…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Compulsory taxable transactions

Article 257

I. - Transactions contributing to the production or supply of immovable property are subject to value added tax under the following conditions.1. The following are treated in the same way as tangible…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Recording data in the directory

Article R53-21-2

I.-The persons whose data is recorded in the register are those being prosecuted, within the meaning of paragraphs 10 and 1 of Article 706-56-2, and those convicted of one of the offences for which so…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Constitution of the mortgage.

Article 241

Ships and other seagoing vessels, including maritime drones as defined in article L. 5000-2-2 of the French Transport Code, which have been registered are subject to mortgages, unless they have been r…

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