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Showing 12711280 of 50777 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 13-2-1985 n° 82-14.220

French General Tax CodeIn force
D: Tax base

Article 1388 quinquies

…xpayer may opt for the latter scheme at the latest within two months of the promulgation of the loi n° 2009-594 du 27 mai 2009 pour le développement économique des outre-mer. In the absence of an opti…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Proceedings against the trader

Article R1110-13

In the event of non-conciliation, the President of the Council of the Association on whose roll the health professional is registered will forward a reasoned opinion on the complaint to the Disciplina…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Customer compensation.

Article L7313-13

In the event of termination of an open-ended employment contract by the employer, in the absence of serious misconduct, the traveller, sales representative or sales representative is entitled to compe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Common provisions

Article L4312-13

The members of the nurses' association councils are elected in a single-round majority binominal ballot. Each pair is made up of candidates of different genders. If the Council of the Order has an une…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Operation.

Article L2352-13

The special negotiating body takes its decisions by an absolute majority of its members, which must also represent an absolute majority of the employees of the participating companies, subsidiaries an…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: The confession

Article 1383-1

A purely verbal extrajudicial confession is received only in cases where the law allows proof by any means.Its probative value is left to the judge's discretion.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Capital increases.

Article R225-134

If shares are paid up by offsetting claims on the company, these claims are the subject of an account statement drawn up by the Board of Directors or the Management Board and certified as accurate by…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Calculation based on commercial representation in cinemas

Article 721-13

This is calculated as follows:- 0.70 per admission for the fraction of the total number of admissions less than or equal to 50,000;- €0.35 per admission for the fraction of the total number of admissi…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions relating to the approval of agreements by employees in undertakings with fewer than eleven employees and in undertakings with between eleven and twenty employees without an elected representative on the social and economic committee.

Article R2232-13

Disputes relating to the list of employees to be consulted and to the regularity of the consultation shall fall within the jurisdiction of the judicial court, which shall have final jurisdiction. They…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Professional acts

Article D4362-13

In the event of loss or breakage of corrective ametropic lenses, where an emergency is established and in the absence of a suitable medical solution, the optician may exceptionally issue new equipment…

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