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Showing 14511460 of 53735 articles for Art. Cass. com. 12 January 1999 · Cass. 1re civ. 20 December 2012 · Cass. com. 29 January 2002 · Cass. com. 3 May 2012

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Interbank settlement systems and settlement and delivery systems for financial instruments

Article R752-20

…e right-hand column of the same table:Applicable articlesIn the wording resulting from the decreeR. 330-1n° 2013-388 of 10 May 2013R. 330-2 and R. 330-3no. 2005-1007 of 2 August 2005

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 4: Joint Conciliation Committee

Article R615-20

…parties of the composition of the commission and convene them to a preliminary meeting. Each party may request a change in the assessors for a serious and legitimate reason assessed by the chairman.…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: Closure of proceedings

Article L742-20

…debtor is clearly in the situation defined in the second paragraph of Article L. 742-21, the judge may open and close the personal recovery procedure with judicial liquidation for insufficient assets…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Information.

Article LO6431-20

…In order to enable the exchange of information on matters within its remit, the Territorial Council may, under the conditions defined by its deliberative assembly, make available to its elected member…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Data retention and penalties

Article L722-20

The temporary detention order referred to in Articles L. 722-18 and L. 722-19 may be appealed, by the person to whom the temporary detention order is notified, to the President of the High Court of Ap…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Procedures before committees

Article R712-20

…commission for actions to prevent rental evictions provided for in article 7-2 of law no. 90-449 of 31 May 1990 aimed at implementing the right to housing, the departmental council and the family allo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 14: Inclusion on the list of medicinal products for officinal use

Article R5121-203

The Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé may, by reasoned decision, refuse to include a medicinal product on the list referred to in Article R. 5…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-20

…lease from judicial supervision, house arrest under electronic surveillance or modification thereof may be ordered at any time by the investigating chamber under the conditions set out in Article 199,…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV bis: Conflict of laws rules

Article 202-1

…thin the meaning of Article 146 and the first paragraph of Article 180. Two persons of the same sex may contract marriage where, for at least one of them, either his personal law or the law of the Sta…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-20

…uring the period of enforcement of one of the measures, including probation, mentioned in articles 712-6 and 712-7 may give rise to the extension, revocation or withdrawal of the measure after its exp…

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