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Showing 29012910 of 30362 articles for Art. Cass. ass. plén. 24 February 2006 · Cass. com. 20 November 1962 · Cass. 3e civ. 26 September 2012 · Cass. 3e civ. 7 June 2018

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to confiscation orders issued by French courts

Article 713-8

If the confiscation order concerns a sum of money, the Public Prosecutor shall forward it, together with the certificate, to the competent authority of the State in which he has reason to believe that…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to confiscation orders issued by French courts

Article 713-9

If there is no means of determining the State in which the assets or income of the person against whom the order has been issued are located, the public prosecutor shall transmit the confiscation orde…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to confiscation orders issued by French courts

Article 713-10

Where the confiscation order relates to a sum of money and the competent authority of the executing State has substituted confiscation of property, consent to the transfer of that property shall be gi…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Costs.

Article 700

…e had not had this aid. In this case, the procedure is as set out in paragraphs 3 and 4 of article 37 of law no. 91-647 of 10 July 1991.In all cases, the judge takes into account the fairness or the e…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 78

…icer shall draw up a record of their statements. The judicial police officers designated in article 20 may also, under the supervision of a judicial police officer, hear the persons summoned. The repo…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Pension entitlement

Article 767

…ased has expressly declared that such a legacy shall be paid in preference to the others, article 927 shall apply.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Continuous evaluation of the risk-benefit ratio and transmission of new data

Article R5121-74-7

In order to be able to continuously assess the benefit/risk balance of the medicinal product, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may at any…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Conditional release

Article 733

…e conditional release decision, that decision may be revoked, following the distinctions of article 730, either by the sentence enforcement judge or by the sentence enforcement court, in accordance wi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The undertaking given by the insolvency practitioner in the main insolvency proceedings

Article L692-7

…s who proposes to give a commitment pursuant to Article 36 of the aforementioned Regulation (EU) No 2015/848 shall obtain the agreement of all local creditors affected by that commitment, including th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: The undertaking given by the insolvency practitioner in the main insolvency proceedings

Article R692-7

…dings shall notify the undertaking he proposes to give pursuant to Article 36 of Regulation (EU) No 2015/848 of 20 May 2015 to the debtor's known local creditors who have an establishment on national…

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