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Showing 42214230 of 61564 articles for Art. Cass. com. 12 May 2004 · Cass. com. 19 October 1982 · Cass. 3e civ. 4 February 1976 · Cass. 3e civ. 2 June 1982

French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Informing the administrative authority

Article D1233-4

The notification of the redundancy project provided for in article L. 1233-46 is sent by electronic means to the Regional Director of Companies, Competition, Consumption, Labour and Employment. In add…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Embryo research

Article R2151-4

…he members of the couple or of the unmarried woman provided for in the last paragraph of Article L. 2131-4 and in Articles L. 2141-3 and L. 2141-4, are carried out, in the case of pre-implantation dia…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 426

…udge or by the family council if it has been constituted, without prejudice to any formalities that may be required by the nature of the property. If the purpose of the deed is to admit the person con…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Exemption authorisation for young people undergoing vocational training

Article R4153-42

If the information mentioned in 1°, 2° or 4° of article R. 4153-41 changes, this information is updated and communicated to the labour inspection supervisor by any means giving a date certain within e…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Surety bonds

Article R23-4

In the cases provided for in the first paragraph of Article 142-2 and in the first paragraph of Article 142-3, the sums returned to the person prosecuted are increased, where applicable, by accrued in…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection III: The judgment.

Article 454

The judgment is rendered in the name of the French people. It contains the indication:-of the court from which it emanates;-of the names of the judges who deliberated on it;-of its date;-of the name o…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions common to protected adults

Article 417

The guardianship judge may issue injunctions against the persons entrusted with protection and order those who have not complied to pay the civil fine provided for in the Code of Civil Procedure. He m…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Referral to the industrial tribunal

Article R1452-4

…pt of the copies of the application and the form referred to in the second paragraph of article R. 1452-2, the court registry will summon the defendant by registered letter with acknowledgement of rec…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Title XVI: Controls on cash transported by bearer or forming part of a consignment without the intervention of a bearer to or from abroad.

Article 464

…nd shipments without the intervention of a bearer of cash, within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 2018/1672 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on controls of cash enter…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 47

Any civil status record of French nationals and foreigners made in a foreign country and drawn up in the forms customary in that country is authentic, unless other records or documents held, external…

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