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Showing 451460 of 57098 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 23-1-2013 n° 11-20.313

French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Single staff register

Article D1221-23-1

For each trainee referred to in the third paragraph of article L. 1221-13, the additional information, entered in the single personnel register or, for organisations that do not have a single personne…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Refusal to renew.

Article L145-23-1

The lessor may, at the end of a three-year period, in the forms provided for by article L. 145-9 and at least six months in advance, repossess residential premises rented as an accessory to business p…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: National identification system and register of companies and their establishments.

Article R123-232-1

If a legal representative of a legal unit objects to this data being made available to the public for canvassing purposes pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 21 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the Europ…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-23-1

The insurance company has a period of fifteen days, after receiving notice of the death and becoming aware of the beneficiary's details, or at the end of the term of the contract, to ask the beneficia…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Provisions common to credit institutions, payment institutions and electronic money institutions

Article L754-11

I.- Subject to the provisions of II, the provisions of the article mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table, shall appl…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Divorce by judicial mutual consent

Article 230

In the case provided for in 1° of article 229-2, divorce may be requested jointly by the spouses where they agree on the breakdown of the marriage and its effects by submitting for the judge's approva…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 17-11

Without prejudice to the interpretation given to previous agreements, a change of nationality may not, under any circumstances, result from an international convention unless that convention expressly…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Authorities responsible for the conduct of criminal policy, public prosecutions and investigations

Article 11-1

With the authorisation of the public prosecutor or examining magistrate, as the case may be, elements of ongoing legal proceedings may be communicated to authorities or bodies authorised for this purp…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Effects of the guarantee between the creditor and the guarantor

Article 2305

The benefit of discussion allows the guarantor to oblige the creditor to sue the principal debtor first. Neither a guarantor held jointly and severally with the debtor, nor a guarantor who has waived…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Effects of the guarantee between the creditor and the guarantor

Article 2303

The professional creditor is required to inform any guarantor who is a natural person of the principal debtor's default from the first payment incident not regularised within one month of the due date…

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