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Showing 55515560 of 36276 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 5-9-2012 n° 11-23.209

French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Specific provisions relating to assignment subledgers

Article R342-9-1

The technical provisions corresponding to the operations of supplementary professional retirement funds subject to the auxiliary allocation accounting mentioned in Article L. 381-2 are those mentioned…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Mutual certificates

Article L322-26-9

I.-Mutualist certificates are redeemable only in the event of the liquidation of the issuer and after all preferential, unsecured and subordinated creditors have been paid in full. Redemption is made…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Financial and accounting provisions.

Article R1142-53

The public body is subject to the provisions of Titles I and III of Decree no. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 on public budgetary and accounting management.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions applicable to requests for information by the French services

Article 695-9-33

If there are reasons to assume that a Member State holds information falling within the scope of Article 695-9-31 useful for the prevention of an offence or for investigations to establish proof there…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6113-9-2

Records of all access, consultation, creation and modification of patient data are kept for a period of six months at a time by the health care organisation.Traces of actions carried out by the servic…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 59

Unless a claim is made from inside the house or exceptions are provided for by law, searches and home visits may not be commenced before 6 a.m. and after 9 p.m. The formalities mentioned in articles 5…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Principles

Article R141-9-1

The contentious appeal period applicable to the decisions mentioned in article R. 141-5 and falling within the jurisdiction of the administrative courts is one month.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Copyright owners

Article L113-9-1

Unless otherwise stipulated, where persons not covered by article L. 113-9 and who are hosted under an agreement by a private or public legal entity carrying out research create software in the perfor…

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 2: Marinas and anchorages.

Article R341-5

Independently of offences relating to the conservation of the public domain, which remain subject to the "contravention de grande voirie" system, breaches of the provisions of the mooring regulations…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Contracts concluded at trade fairs and exhibitions

Article L224-59

Before the conclusion of any contract between a consumer and a trader at a fair, exhibition or any commercial event covered by Chapter II of Title VI of Book VII of the French Commercial Code, the tra…

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