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Showing 33413350 of 45508 articles for Art. Cass. com. 24 May 2005 n° 786 · CA Rouen 8 January 2004 · Cass. com. 24 May 1976 · Cass. com. 16 January 2001 · Cass. com. 14 April 1992 · Cass. com. 15 December 2009 · Cass. 1re civ. 15 October 2014

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Transmission of the request by the public prosecutor.

Article 728-16

Before transmitting the sentencing decision and the certificate, the representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office may consult the competent authority of the executing State in order to determine,…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Publication in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales.

Article R123-162

…unting documents provided for in the first paragraph of Article R. 123-111, accompanied, where applicable, by a declaration of confidentiality or a declaration of simplified publication of the annual…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Amending entries

Article R521-16

…ctions involving movable property, only the information concerning the debtor is replaced. In other cases, the court clerk shall replace the information entered with that information. In other cases,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Operation

Article R3262-16

…e meal voucher accounts provided for in article L. 3262-2 provides the account holder with a certificate of account opening in triplicate. The account holder will give one of these copies to the relev…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Tasks and authorisation

Article R2131-16

The centre may be consulted either directly by the pregnant woman or the couple where a proven risk has been identified in application of III of article L. 2131-1, or by the attending physician who se…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Warranty in the event of eviction.

Article 1638

…here is reason to presume that the purchaser would not have bought had he been informed of them, he may ask for the contract to be rescinded, if better he does not like to settle for compensation.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section III: Governance system

Article R385-16

…354-3-2 and R. 354-3-3 do not apply to supplementary occupational pension funds.II. - For the application of article R. 354-3 to supplementary occupational pension funds, the following definitions ap…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 162

If the experts ask to be enlightened on a question outside their speciality, the judge may authorise them to be assisted by named persons specially qualified by their competence. The persons thus appo…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Obligations of the purchaser.

Article 1653

If the purchaser is disturbed or has just cause to fear that he will be disturbed by an action, either mortgage or revendication, he may suspend payment of the price until the seller has put an end to…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 7 : Nature of the tests leading to the award of the three-degree state diploma for sports instructors at the end of a modular training course

Article A212-142

…gional director of youth, sport and community life. If successful, the director will issue a certificate of achievement.

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