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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Special rules

Article 1348

Set-off may be ordered by a court, even if one of the obligations, although certain, is not yet liquid or due. Unless otherwise decided, the set-off takes effect on the date of the decision.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Sale by auction.

Article 1378

If all the undivided co-owners are capable and present or represented, they may unanimously decide that the auction will take place between them. Failing this, third parties to the undivided interest…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to portfolio management companies

Article L533-22-2-2

…ment schemes on their order execution policy. Where the order execution policy provides that orders may be executed outside a trading venue, the asset management company shall inform the shareholders…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section V: The court-appointed estate agent.

Article 1357

The president of the judicial court or his delegate may, of his own motion or at the request of the heirs, summon the mandatary, request from him all information on the progress of his mission and iss…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: The role of the curator.

Article 1343

The curator's mission is set by the curatorship order. The curator may only deliver the particular or universal legacies granted by the deceased at the end of the period mentioned in article 810-1 of…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions.

Article 1361

…er the partition, if it can take place, or the sale by auction if the conditions set out in Article 1378 are met. When partition is ordered, the court may appoint a notary to draw up the deed recordin…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Penalty procedure

Article L327-13

…the supervisory board will carry out an investigation and draw up a report on the basis of which it may give formal notice to the management organisation to comply with the provisions of this Title, w…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Special provisions relating to money market instruments

Article 1343

…ion to pay a sum of money is discharged by payment of its nominal amount. The amount of the sum due may vary through indexation. The debtor of a debt of value is discharged by payment of the sum of mo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Disciplinary proceedings

Article R1442-22-9

…the referral by any means giving a date certain by the committee secretary, who informs him that he may inspect the documents relating to the proceedings at the committee secretariat or that they may…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 8: The national information system common to the regional joint cross-industry committees

Article R6323-21-8

…rsonal data implemented by means of the joint national information system referred to in Article R. 6323-21-7.

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