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Showing 211220 of 57098 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 23-1-2013 n° 11-20.313

French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Presumption of absence

Article 116

If the presumed absent person is called to a partition, it may be made amicably. In the event of conflicting interests between the representative and the presumed absent person, the guardianship judge…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: Other proceedings falling within the jurisdiction of the family affairs judge

Article 1137

The judge is seised by a summons to a hearing date communicated to the applicant in accordance with the procedures defined by article 751. In a duly justified case of urgency, the family court, on rec…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Educational assistance

Article 1181

Educational assistance measures are taken by the children's judge of the place where one of the parents, the minor's guardian or the person or service to whom the child has been entrusted resides, as…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4° : Acts, archives, registers and documents destroyed as a result of war, disaster or any other event

Article 1125

The filing of deeds and documents required to reconstitute mortgage documentation destroyed by a case of force majeure is exempt from all duties and taxes, as well as from the contribution provided fo…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
10°: National artistic heritage

Article 1131

I. - Subject to the provisions of article 1020, the purchaser, donee, heir or legatee of a work of art, books, collectors' items or documents of high artistic or historical value, is exempt from trans…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Interrogations and confrontations

Article 116

When the investigating judge is considering investigating a person who has not already been heard as an assisted witness, the investigating judge shall make the person's first appearance in accordance…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection V: Divorce on conversion of legal separation

Article 1131

Unless the legal separation has been pronounced by mutual consent, the application for conversion shall be lodged, investigated and judged in accordance with the ordinary written procedure. No counter…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
9°: Marriages. Dissentiment of parents

Article 1129

Subject to the provisions of

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Representation

Article 1161

In matters of representation of natural persons, a representative may not act on behalf of several parties to the contract in opposition of interests or contract on his own behalf with the principal.I…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Technical sports advisors to sports federations

Article D131-23-1

Without prejudice to the allowances mentioned in article R. 131-21, an allowance may be paid to the sports technical advisor, up to an annual amount set in the framework agreement mentioned in article…

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