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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Rules applicable to the assignment and recovery of receivables and the preservation of assets.

Article D214-227-1

The instrument of acceptance provided for in the fourth paragraph of 3° of V of Article L. 214-169 shall include the following information: 1° The title "instrument of acceptance of the assignment or…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Working conditions

Article R4141-15

In the event of the creation or modification of a workstation or technique exposing the worker to new risks and involving one of the tasks listed below, the worker shall, where appropriate, after anal…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Appeals provided for in Article L. 464-8.

Article R464-13

Within five days of the filing of the declaration, and failing which the declaration shall automatically lapse, the applicant shall send a copy of the declaration, by registered letter with acknowledg…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Paragraph 2: Ordinary procedure

Article R121-15

…is sent on the same day by simple letter to the parties and to the bailiff. If the letter of notification is returned to the court clerk's office but cannot be delivered to the addressee or to any pe…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter III: Obligations of the insurer and the insured.

Article L113-15

The duration of the contract must be clearly stated in the font. The policy must also state that the tacit renewal period may under no circumstances exceed one year.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Customer compensation.

Article L7313-15

Customer compensation is not the same as compensation for unfair termination of a permanent employment contract or compensation for early termination of a fixed-term employment contract.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Detection of business difficulties by the president of the court

Article R611-15

Where the injunction to do so has been complied with within the time allowed, the case shall be withdrawn from the roll by the president of the court. Otherwise, the court clerk shall record the failu…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Permanent exemptions

Article 1394

…roducing.These include:gardens adjoining public buildings and hospices referred to in 1° of article 1382;the Paris plant garden, the botanical gardens of the départements, their nurseries and those ma…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions applicable to partnerships of commercial court registrars.

Article R743-135

The joint ventures provided for in article 22 of Law No. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 shall be known as sociétés en participation de greffiers de tribunal de commerce. The partnership is not the holder…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 2: Determining the amount of the allowance

Article D553-15

…or cessation of cohabitation, the recipient who benefits from the child being taken into account in calculating the amount of the allowance is the person who has actual and permanent responsibility fo…

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