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Showing 75317540 of 56807 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 28-1-2021 n° 19-25.036

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Professional acts

Article D4362-11-1

The optician-mutician may adapt the optical corrections of eye contact lens prescriptions dating from less than :-one year, for patients under 16 years of age;-three years for a medical prescription a…

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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 Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Rescission of the sale on the ground of lesion.

Article 1677

Proof of injury may be admitted only by judgment, and only in cases where the facts asserted are sufficiently likely and serious enough to give rise to a presumption of injury.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Delivery.

Article 1621

In all cases where the purchaser has the right to withdraw from the contract, the seller is obliged to return to him, in addition to the price, if he has received it, the costs of that contract.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Estimates and contracts.

Article 1789

In the case where the workman supplies only his labour or industry, if the thing comes to perish, the workman is liable only for his fault.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: The reconstitution of destroyed documents.

Article 1434

The court may carry out a partial reconstruction of the deed in cases where the proof of certain clauses, sufficient in themselves, is alone reported.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Commitments of the borrower.

Article 1881

If the borrower uses the thing for another purpose, or for a longer time than he ought, he shall be liable for the loss that has occurred, even by fortuitous event.

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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 General Tax CodeIn force
A: Interest on arrears

Article 1727

I. - Any tax claim, the establishment or collection of which is the responsibility of the tax authorities, which has not been paid within the legal time limit shall give rise to the payment of late pa…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Fees levied on the issue, renewal and supply of duplicates of residence permits and travel documents for foreign minors

Article L436-1

With the exception of provisional residence permits, the issue and renewal of a residence permit give rise to the collection of a fee set at 200 euros. This amount is reduced to 50 euros for foreign n…

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