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Showing 631640 of 24710 articles for Art. Cass. com. 13-11-1962 n° 60-10.147

French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Binding force

Article 1195

If a change in circumstances unforeseeable at the time the contract was concluded makes performance excessively onerous for a party who had not agreed to assume the risk, that party may ask its co-con…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-13

Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years on the date of the events and whose statutory purpose is the defence and protection of animals may exercise the rights granted to…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4° : Acts, archives, registers and documents destroyed as a result of war, disaster or any other event

Article 1122

All deeds that it is necessary to reconstitute following a disaster or acts of war, as well as all procedural formalities having this reconstitution as their object, are, subject to the provisions of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-Paragraph 3: Acts relating mainly to contracts and agreements concerning real estate and landed property

Article A444-115

Services relating to joint ownership or easements (numbers 92 and 93 of table 5) give rise, to the collection of:1° In the event of the creation, amending agreement or transfer of joint ownership or e…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Preferential agreement and unilateral undertaking

Article 1123

A preference pact is a contract by which a party undertakes to offer its beneficiary priority to deal with it in the event that it decides to enter into a contract. When a contract is entered into wit…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
10°: National artistic heritage

Article 1131

I. - Subject to the provisions of article 1020, the purchaser, donee, heir or legatee of a work of art, books, collectors' items or documents of high artistic or historical value, is exempt from trans…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Authorities responsible for the conduct of criminal policy, public prosecutions and investigations

Article 11

Unless otherwise provided by law and without prejudice to the rights of the defence, proceedings during the investigation and enquiry shall be secret.Any person who takes part in these proceedings is…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: The application and the divorce proceedings

Article 1109

In urgent cases, notwithstanding Articles 1107 and 1108, the family affairs judge, seised by petition, under the conditions of the second and third paragraphs of Article 840 and of Article 841, may au…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Interrogations and confrontations

Article 116

When the investigating judge is considering investigating a person who has not already been heard as an assisted witness, the investigating judge shall make the person's first appearance in accordance…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Automatic exclusions specific to defence or security concession contracts

Article L3123-13

The following are excluded from defence or security concession contracts: 1° Persons who have been convicted by a final judgment of one of the offences provided for in Articles 226-13, 222-52 to 222-5…

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