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Showing 211220 of 40090 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 9-4-2014 n° 13-10.725

French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Revolving credit

Article R341-13

A creditor or credit intermediary who contravenes the obligations laid down by the provisions of articles L. 312-62 and L. 312-63 with regard to pre-contractual information is punishable by a 5th clas…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Delegation

Article 1339

Where the delegating party is a creditor of the delegatee, its claim is extinguished only by the performance of the delegatee's obligation to the delegatee and in due proportion.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Delegation

Article 1340

The mere indication by the debtor of a person designated to pay in his place does not entail novation or delegation. The same applies to the mere indication made by the creditor of a person designated…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Delegation

Article 1337

Where the delegator is a debtor of the delegatee and the delegatee's intention to discharge the delegator is expressly stated in the deed, the delegation constitutes novation. However, the delegator r…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Delegation

Article 1338

Where the delegator is indebted to the delegatee but the delegatee has not discharged him of his debt, the delegation gives the delegatee a second debtor. Payment made by one of the two debtors discha…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Delegation

Article 1336

Delegation is a transaction by which one person, the delegator, obtains from another, the delegate, an obligation to a third, the delegatee, who accepts it as a debtor. The delegate may not, unless ot…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Debt forgiveness

Article 1350

Debt forgiveness is the contract by which the creditor releases the debtor from his obligation.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: The confession

Article 1383

A confession is the statement by which a person acknowledges as true a fact likely to produce legal consequences against him.It may be judicial or extrajudicial.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Other written documents

Article 1378

The registers and documents that professionals are required to keep or draw up have, against their author, the same evidential force as writings under private signature; but the person relying on them…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Payment with subrogation

Article 1346

Subrogation takes place by operation of law alone in favour of the person who, having a legitimate interest therein, pays whenever his payment discharges from liability to the creditor the person on w…

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