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Showing 451460 of 36024 articles for Art. Cass. com. 23 September 1982 · Cass. 3e civ. 6 December 2005 · CA Paris 22 November 2007 · Cass. com. 15 January 2002 · Cass. 1re civ. 13 December 2005

French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Waiver of limitation.

Article 2251

…r of the statute of limitations is express or tacit.Tacit waiver results from circumstances unequivocally establishing the will not to avail oneself of the statute of limitations.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions of acquisitive prescription.

Article 2268

However, the persons set out in articles 2266 and 2267 may prescribe, if the title to their possession is inverted, either by a cause coming from a third party, or by the contradiction they have oppos…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions of acquisitive prescription.

Article 2271

Acquisitive prescription is interrupted when the possessor of a property is deprived for more than one year of the enjoyment of that property either by the owner or even by a third party.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Allocation of sums held in the automatic cinema distribution account

Article 222-9

The distribution company guarantees a financial investment taking the form of: 1° In the case mentioned in article…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Right of the Board of Directors to impose sanctions - Suspension or reduction of funding

Article R2135-23

In the cases provided for in the third paragraph of article L. 2135-16, the Board of Directors may, by means of a resolution adopted in accordance with the procedures defined in the third paragraph of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Open-cast earthworks.

Article R4534-22

…arting any earthworks, the employer must obtain information from the relevant road authority in the case of work on public property, or from the owner in the case of work on private property: 1° The p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession

Article L4311-22

…ic Area, who is established and legally practises the activities of a nurse responsible for general care in a Member State or State party, may perform professional acts in France, on a temporary and o…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraphe 1 : Du divorce par consentement mutuel par acte sous signature privée contresigné par avocats, déposé au rang des minutes d'un notaire

Article 229-3

Consent to the divorce and its effects cannot be presumed. The agreement shall expressly include, on pain of nullity: 1° The surname, forenames, profession, residence, nationality, date and place of b…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Injunction and regularisation

Article R131-22

In cases other than those provided for in articles R. 131-20, R. 131-21 and R. 131-21-1, the incident is regularised when, at the request of the drawer, a blocked provision earmarked for the actual pa…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Policing of roads and buildings (R).

Article R2512-15

The first number of the series, either even or odd, begins: - in streets perpendicular or oblique to the course of the Seine, at the entrance to the street taken at the nearest point to the river, so…

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