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Showing 79317940 of 56508 articles for Art. Cass. com. 13-1-2009 n° 07-20.097

French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules specific to farm leases.

Article 1765

If, in a farm lease, the land is given a lesser or greater extent than that which it actually has, there shall be no increase or decrease in price for the farmer, except in the cases and according to…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Savings banks

Article 1062

Subject to the provisions of 3° of l'article 679, printed matter, writings and deeds of any kind necessary for the service of the savings banks and the national savings bank are exempt from registrati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Links of interest and transparency

Article L1451-1

I.-The members of the commissions and councils sitting with the ministers responsible for health and social security, the members of the ministers' cabinets as well as the directors, management and su…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Allowances for holders of departmental mandates

Article L3123-18

A departmental councillor who holds other electoral mandates or who sits in this capacity on the board of directors of a local public establishment, the national centre for the territorial civil servi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 3: Allowances for holders of regional mandates.

Article L4135-18

A regional councillor who holds other electoral mandates or who sits in this capacity on the board of directors of a local public establishment, the national centre for territorial civil servants, the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions specific to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution

Article L632-15

Notwithstanding the provisions of Act 68-678 of 26 July 1968 relating to the disclosure of economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical documents and information to foreign natural or lega…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Counting of votes

Article D4233-17

The original minutes of the voting and counting operations with its appendices, the media files including the copy of the source programmes and executable programmes, the count, results and backup fil…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter I: Offences concerning cinema and video exhibition receipts

Article L441-1

Unless one or more of the administrative sanctions provided for in 2° to 7° of article L. 422-1 in the event of failure to comply with the provisions of article L. 212-32 and the provisions of article…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Information for employees in the event of the sale of their company

Article L23-10-1

In companies which are not obliged to set up a works council pursuant to article L. 2322-1 of the French Labour Code, when the owner of a shareholding representing more than 50% of the shares in a lim…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Special provisions.

Article R5141-112-1

For the purposes of 2° of article L. 5143-2, the following definitions apply 1° "Prohibition on keeping a dispensary open": The prohibition on any veterinarian from preparing extemporaneously, and dis…

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