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Showing 311320 of 58756 articles for Art. Cass. com. 19 June 1984 · CA Paris 2 March 1984 · Cass. com. 2 May 1972 · Cass. civ. 9 May 1962

French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Collective coordination procedure

Article L694-2

Under Article 71(1) of Regulation (EU) No 2015/848, persons entered on the list of judicial administrators or judicial representatives pursuant to Articles L. 811-2 and L. 812-2 or an insolvency pract…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Collective coordination procedure

Article R694-2

…r. It is subject to the publicity measures provided for in the first five paragraphs of Article R. 621-8. It may be appealed within ten days of its notification to the persons mentioned in the first p…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial and statistical monitoring

Article R5134-19

The categories of personal data recorded are as follows: 1° Family name and, where applicable, surname, forenames, gender and date of birth; 2° Nationality, in one of the following forms:-French ;a na…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions required for the validity of the contract.

Article 1976

The life annuity may be constituted at such rate as the contracting parties may determine.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Treasury liens

Article 1920

…is exercised before all others on movable property and effects belonging to debtors, wherever they may be. However, for claims of all kinds relating to indirect taxes, this lien is exercised after th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: The nature and form of the mandate.

Article 1985

The mandate may be given by deed or by private document, even by letter. It may also be given orally, but testimonial evidence of it is received only in accordance with the title "Of contracts or conv…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 199 octodecies

I. Payments of sums of money and the allocation of property or rights made in performance of the compensatory allowance under the conditions and according to the procedures defined in articles 274 and…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 193

Subject to the provisions of Article 196 B, taxable income shall, for the purposes of calculating income tax, be divided into a certain number of units, determined in accordance with Article 194, acco…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter III: Personal appearance of the parties.

Article 198

The judge may draw any legal conclusions from the declarations of the parties, or from the absence or refusal of one of them to reply, and may refer to them as equivalent to a prima facie case in writ…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Framework agreements with purchase orders

Article R2191-19

When the amount of the advance payment is less than 80% of the amount calculated in accordance with the provisions of articles R. 2191-16 to R. 2191-18, the reimbursement of the advance payment must b…

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