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Showing 311320 of 28681 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 10-9-2020 n° 19-20.856

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Availability

Article R7123-19

In particular, the availability contract shall mention: 1° The nature and characteristics of the service, in particular as regards working conditions and the foreseeable hours of employment and select…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Credit consolidation

Article R314-19

Where the purpose of the credit transaction is to repay at least two previous debts, including an outstanding credit, the creditor or credit intermediary shall, after dialogue with the borrower, draw…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Delegated federations

Article L131-19

Where no sports federation has been delegated responsibility for a particular sport, the powers conferred on the delegating federations by this section and by Articles L. 222-7, L. 222-11, L. 222-15,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Closure of the judicial liquidation.

Article R643-19

Within two months of the completion of his assignment, the liquidator shall file an end-of-assignment report under the conditions set out in Articles R. 626-39 and R. 626-40. Article R. 626-41 is appl…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Criminal provisions.

Article L1525-19

Articles L. 1336-5 to L. 1336-9 of this code are applicable in the territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Health checks and surveillance

Article R1321-19

To carry out the analysis programme provided for in articles R. 1321-10, R. 1321-15, R. 1321-15-1 and R. 1321-16 and for the additional analyses provided for in articles R. 1321-17 and R. 1321-18, wat…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for initiating resolution proceedings

Article L311-19

Without prejudice to the provisions of Article L. 325-1, the resolution board may decide to withdraw all or part of the authorisation of a person subject to resolution proceedings, where appropriate a…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section V: Information to be provided to the public

Article R385-19

I. - Articles R. 355-9 and R. 355-12 are applicable to supplementary occupational pension funds.For the application of these provisions :1° The following should be understood: "supplementary occupatio…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 5 : Acquisition of French nationality by decision of the public authorities

Article 21-19

…m the competent minister; 7° A foreign national who has obtained refugee status pursuant to the loi n° 52-893 du 25 juillet 1952 portant création d'un Office français de protection des réfugiés et apa…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 7: Civil fines

Article 1180-19

The civil fine provided for in Article 387-6 of the Civil Code may not exceed 10,000 euros.

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