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Showing 15011510 of 37804 articles for Art. Cass. civ. 2e – 31 May 2018 – no. 17-17518

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Appeals provided for in Article L. 464-8.

Article R464-17

…hts or obligations of other persons who were parties before the Competition Authority, such persons may intervene in the proceedings before the Court of Appeal. Voluntary intervention is made, on pain…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4 : The impossibility for French nationals established outside France to celebrate their marriage abroad

Article 171-9

…s purpose at least one month before the publication provided for in article 63. The civil registrar may ask the territorially competent diplomatic or consular authority to conduct the joint hearing an…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Organisation and operation

Article D112-17

…e Board of Directors and sends it to the Ministers of Culture and Sport.To carry out his duties, he may delegate his signature to the heads of the departments under his authority.

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French Tourism CodeIn force
Section 3: Professional liability

Article L211-17

…such compensation, the same limits apply to the organiser or retailer. In other cases, the contract may limit the damages to be paid by the organiser or retailer, provided that this limitation does no…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: The company during the observation period.

Article L622-17

…with the exception of those secured by the lien established in articles L. 3253-2, L. 3253-4 et L. 7313-8 of the French Labour Code, legal costs regularly incurred after the opening judgment for the p…

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Tax penalties

Article 1788 A

…upply as it results from article 266 and the entire tax base.5. The offences provided for in 1 to 3 may be detected by the Directorate General of Public Finance or the Directorate General of Customs a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Procedures for the exercise of judicial police functions by authorised judicial environmental officers

Article R15-33-29-31

The provisions of articles R. 15-33-18 and R. 15-33-21 to R. 15-33-24 are applicable to the exercise of judicial police missions by authorised judicial environmental officers.

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXXIII: Procedure applicable in the event of a collective accident

Article 706-179

The public prosecutor at a judicial court other than those mentioned in Article 706-176 may, for offences falling within the scope of the same Article 706-176, request the investigating judge to relin…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 9: Special provisions for forestry savings companies governed by Article L. 214-121.

Article R214-174

…he total forestry assets. No more than 40% of the forestry assets of a Société d'Epargne Forestière may consist of interest shares in forestry groupings or companies whose sole purpose is to hold wood…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition

Article D1432-17

…e ministers responsible for health, health insurance, the elderly and the disabled. These ministers may, by order published in the Journal officiel de la République française, authorise the secretary…

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