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Showing 43914400 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 General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 quinquies DA

Equipment acquired or manufactured before 1 January 2011 that appears on a list drawn up by joint order of the Minister for the Budget and the Minister for the Environment and that is intended to redu…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title II: Action.

Article 31

The action is open to all those who have a legitimate interest in the success or rejection of a claim, subject to cases in which the law attributes the right to act only to persons whom it qualifies t…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Termination of proceedings.

Article 385

Principally, the proceedings are extinguished by the effect of the lapse of time, the discontinuance of the proceedings or the lapse of the summons.In these cases, the finding that the proceedings are…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Legal administration

Article 382

Legal administration is the responsibility of the parents. If parental authority is exercised jointly by both parents, each parent is the legal administrator. In other cases, legal administration belo…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Designation of the country of return

Article L721-3

…ermine, by a decision separate from the removal decision, the country to which the foreign national may be returned in the event of the automatic enforcement of a decision imposing an obligation to le…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Substitution of the user for the modelling agency in the event of insufficient security

Article R7123-38

…the user is substituted for the modelling agency for the payment of the sums defined in article R. 7123-20 which remain due by the agency in respect of the services provided by the models on behalf of…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Driving licence

Article 328

…n the district of the post from which it originates. In the event of a move to another district, it may be exchanged without any time limit (1). (1) See also livre des procédures fiscales, art. L. 24.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Evidentiary value of regular reports and remedies available to defendants against this legal authority.

Article 339

…acities of the witnesses he wishes to be heard; failing this, the forgery registration shall lapse. 3. This declaration is received and signed by the judge and the court clerk, if the declarant cannot…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: General and compulsory formalities on pain of nullity of seizure reports.

Article 326

…a means of transport containing hiding places set up with a view to concealing the fraudulent goods may only be offered once these hiding places have been cleared. 3. In all cases, release is subject…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval.

Article R511-3-3

…st of the information it deems necessary to carry out the assessment provided for in Article R. 511-3-2 and which must be communicated to it as part of the notification provided for in I of Article L.…

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