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Showing 201210 of 50676 articles for Art. Cass. ch. mixte 14-2-2003 n° 00-19.423

French General Tax CodeIn force
18°: Parent companies

Article 145

…r le financement des télécommunications mentioned in article 1 of the amended finance law for 1969 (n° 69-1160 of 24 December 1969) and of companies which redistribute dividends from a société immobil…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: The order for payment.

Article 1406

The application shall be brought, as the case may be, before the protection litigation judge or the president of the judicial court or the commercial court, within the limits of the jurisdiction of th…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section III: The costs of injunctions to pay and European injunctions to pay proceedings before the Commercial Court.

Article 1425

Before the Commercial Court, the costs of the proceedings are advanced by the claimant and deposited with the clerk's office within fifteen days of the application at the latest, failing which the app…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: The arbitration agreement.

Article 1449

The existence of an arbitration agreement shall not prevent a party, as long as the arbitral tribunal has not been constituted, from bringing an action before a State court for the purpose of obtainin…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1451

Articles 265-2 are suspended, as regards their effects, until the divorce is granted; they may not be enforced, even as between spouses, until the judgment has become res judicata.One of the spouses m…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1458

The following are exempt from business property tax:1° Publishers of periodical sheets and companies in which they hold a majority of the capital and to which they entrust the performance of grouping…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
C: Professional premises

Article 1498

I. - The rental value of each built property or fraction of a built property, other than premises mentioned in I of article 1496, industrial establishments mentioned in article 1499 and premises whose…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1449

The following are exempt from business property tax:1° Local authorities, public establishments and State bodies, for their activities of an essentially cultural, educational, health, social, sporting…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section 3: Provisions common to appeals and actions for annulment

Article 1498

Where the award is subject to provisional enforcement or where 2° of Article 1497, the First President or, as soon as the matter is referred to him, the Conseiller de la mise en état may grant exequat…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Exemptions and allowances

Article 1452

The following are exempt from business property tax: 1° Workers who do contract work for private individuals, or on their behalf and with materials belonging to them, whether or not they have a sign o…

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