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Showing 261270 of 59844 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 5-1-2012 n° 10-12.741

French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Practice of expert medicine.

Article R4127-105

No one may be both expert doctor and treating doctor for the same patient. A doctor must not accept a mission of expertise in which his own interests are at stake, or those of one of his patients, one…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Practice of expert medicine.

Article R4127-108

In drafting his report, the medical expert must only reveal information that is likely to provide an answer to the questions asked. Outside these limits, he must not reveal anything that he may have l…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Objections of lis pendens and connexity.

Article 104

Appeals against rulings on lis pendens or related actions by courts of first instance are lodged and decided in the same way as for pleas of lack of jurisdiction. In the event of multiple appeals, the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Gifts made by marriage contract to the spouses and to unborn children of the marriage.

Article 1085

If the statement referred to in the preceding article has not been appended to the deed containing the gift of the present and future property, the donee will be obliged to accept or repudiate this gi…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Compensatory allowance

Article 1079

The compensatory allowance may not be provisionally enforced. However, it may be provisionally enforced in whole or in part, where failure to enforce would have manifestly excessive consequences for t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Universal legacies.

Article 1007

All holographic or sealed wills shall, before being executed, be deposited with a notary. The will shall be opened if it is sealed. The civil law notary shall immediately draw up a report of the openi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2 : Special rules on the form of certain wills.

Article 1000

Wills made in a foreign country may not be executed on property situated in France until they have been registered at the office of the testator's domicile, if he has retained one, otherwise at the of…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Professional elections.

Article 1007

If a lawyer at the Conseil d'Etat and the Cour de Cassation has declared to the clerk's office that he is representing a party, the notification provided for in Article 1005 or to Article 1006 may be…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III : Transcription and entry of decisions in civil status registers

Article 1056

The operative part of any decision ordered to be transcribed or entered in the civil status registers must state the forenames and surnames of the parties and, as the case may be, the place where the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section III: Construction. Housing

Article 1051

Sont soumis à une imposition fixe de 125 € : 1° Les transferts de biens de toute nature opérés entre organismes d'habitations à loyer modéré, sociétés anonymes de crédit immobilier ou leurs unions et…

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