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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Invocation of the limitation period.

Article 2247

Judges may not, of their own motion, substitute the plea resulting from prescription.

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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 Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Derogations on a geographical basis

Article L3132-25-4

For the application of articles L. 3132-20, L. 3132-24, L. 3132-25, L. 3132-25-1 and L. 3132-25-6, only voluntary employees who have given their written agreement to their employer may work on Sundays…

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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 Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-12

…rt, at the request of the public prosecutor, has jurisdiction to rule on the enforcement of a confiscation order issued by a court in another Member State.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Commencement and progress of the receivership.

Article L631-19

…VI of Title II, with the exception of the third and fourth paragraphs of Article L. 626-1, are applicable to the reorganisation plan, subject to the following provisions. It is the responsibility of t…

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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 Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Limited liability companies.

Article R223-24

Any deliberations of the shareholders' meeting are recorded in minutes which indicate the date and place of the meeting, the surname, first names and capacity of the chairman, the surnames and first n…

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