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Showing 19912000 of 19311 articles for Art. Cass. civ. 3e – 21 Oct. 1998 – no. 96-16537

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 94

…ful in ascertaining the truth, or property the confiscation of which is provided for in article 131-21 of the Penal Code.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Teaching and hospital staff.

Article L6151-1-1

In accordance witharticle L. 952-21-1 of the Education Code, article L. 952-6-2 of the same code is applicable to members of teaching and hospital staff, subject to the adaptations provided for by dec…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Provisions applicable to overseas departments and regions.

Article R732-4

The provisions of articles R. 722-7, R. 722-10, R. 722-18 to R. 722-20 and R. 724-1 to R. 724-21 are applicable to the elected judges of the mixed commercial courts.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Contributions to a company, legal entity or grouping

Article 809

I. - Subject to the provisions of I of l'article 257 :1° Deeds of formation of companies or economic interest groupings which do not contain a transfer of movable or immovable property, between the pa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Personnel.

Article L5323-4

…mise their independence.The aforementioned employees are subject to articles 25 to 25 octies of law no. 83-634 of 13 July 1983 relating to the rights and obligations of civil servants.Persons who occa…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Title II: Turnover taxes and similar taxes

Article 302 bis MA

I. - A tax on certain advertising expenses is introduced with effect from 1 January 1998.II. - This tax is payable by any person liable to value added tax whose turnover for the previous calendar year…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 4: Joint Conciliation Committee

Article R615-30

…shall stay the proceedings until the expiry of the six-month period provided for in Article L. 615-21 unless the commission has already formulated its conciliation proposal.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 8: Revolving credit

Article D312-22

…the normal operation of the credit concerned, the representative example defined in Article D. 312-21 illustrates the normal conditions of performance of the credit agreement.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Payment systems and settlement and delivery systems for financial instruments

Article L754-14

…es applicable In the wording resulting from L. 330-1 with the exception of 1° of I and L. 330 2 Law no. 2021-1308 of 8 October 2021 L. 330-3 Order no. 2009-866 of 15 July 2009 L. 330-4 Order no. 2017-…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Governance of investment firms

Article R773-23

…me table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeR. 533-16-3 and R. 533-16-4n° 2021-941 of 15 July 2021R. 533-17n° 2017-1253 of 9 August 2017R. 533-17-1n° 2020-1637 of 22 December 2…

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