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Showing 111–120 of 39348 articles for “Art. Cass. com. – 15 May 2012 – no. 11-18.330”
The judge may travel outside his jurisdiction to carry out an investigative measure or to monitor its execution.
A Frenchman may be brought before a court in France, for obligations contracted by him in a foreign country, even with a foreigner.
When it cannot be appealed independently of the judgment on the merits, the decision may take the form of a simple mention in the file or in the hearing register.
…e is an agreement by which one party undertakes to deliver a thing, and the other to pay for it. It may be made by deed or by private agreement.
The arbitration agreement may, directly or by reference to arbitration rules or rules of procedure, appoint the arbitrator or arbitrators or provide for the manner of their appointment.
With the consent of the parties concerned, the mediator may visit the premises and interview any persons he deems useful, subject to their agreement.
In the event of conciliation, even partial conciliation, a statement of agreement may be drawn up and signed by the parties and the conciliator. The conciliation may also be recorded in a statement si…
The sale of someone else's thing is void: it may give rise to damages where the buyer was unaware that the thing belonged to someone else.
The First President or, as soon as the matter is referred to him, the Conseiller de la mise en état may grant exequatur to the award.
…grandfathers or grandmothers, or if they are all unable to express their will, minors aged eighteen may not contract marriage without the consent of the family council.
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