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Showing 27612770 of 57027 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 5 November 1997 · Cass. 3e civ. 5 January 2017 n° 15-12.605 · Cass. com. 3 December 2003 · Cass. 3e civ. 18 April 2019 n° 18-10.883 · Cass. 1re civ. 12 December 2000 · Cass. 3e civ. 9 February 2011 · Cass. 1re civ. 6 June 2018 n° 17-17.438

French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Conflict of laws relating to parentage

Article 311-17

A voluntary acknowledgement of paternity or maternity is valid if it was made in accordance with either the personal law of its author or the personal law of the child.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 177-3

Where the civil party is a legal entity, the civil fine provided for in article 177-2 may be pronounced against its legal representative, if the latter's bad faith is established.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle II: The departmental criminal court

Article 380-17

…same place as the assize court or, by way of exception and under the conditions set out in article 235, in another judicial court in the same département, is made up of a president and four assessors,…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exercise of the reduction

Article 924-3

The reduction indemnity is payable at the time of partition, unless the co-heirs agree otherwise. However, where the liberality relates to one of the assets that may be the subject of a preferential a…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Claims in contentious matters.

Article 58

Where this option is open to them under Article 12, the parties may, if they have not already done so since the dispute arose, give the judge, in the joint application, the task of ruling as amiable c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions relating to personnel.

Article R6113-52

…III or IV of the general statute of civil servants and staff mentioned in 1° and 2° of article L. 6152-1 in an active, secondment or secondment position. It may also employ contract staff under publ…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Tax system

Article 575

…l selling price in mainland France of manufactured tobacco is established for each product group by 31 January each year at the latest, on the basis of data relating to all units released for consumpt…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-5

…cient protection, the judge may order one of the judicial protection measures mentioned in sections 3 and 4 of this chapter.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3121-50

…work stoppage resulting from : 1° Accidental causes, bad weather or force majeure ; 2° inventory ; 3° Unemployment on one or two working days between a public holiday and a weekly rest day or on a da…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial administrators who are members of the Commission nationale d'inscription et de discipline (National Registration and Disciplinary Commission)

Article R811-5

…held by majority vote in a single round in accordance with the procedures set out in article R. 811-3.

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