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Showing 33913400 of 47213 articles for Art. Cass. com. 26 May 1992 · Cass. com. 19 November 1975 n° 74-10.116 · CAA Nantes 26 May 2004 · Cass. com. 19 February 1979 · Cass. com. 6 June 1972 · Cass. com. 16 January 1985 · CA Paris 17 January 2008

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Operation and control of the company

Article R814-167

…libérales by judicial administrators or judicial representatives who are partners in such a company may give rise to disciplinary proceedings.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Operation and control of the company

Article R814-163

…d the public prosecutor at the court of appeal within whose jurisdiction its registered office is located, within thirty days of the date on which it occurs, of any change in the situation declared pu…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Operation and control of the company

Article R814-164

…mandataires judiciaires does not comply with the legislative and regulatory provisions in force, it may be invited to regularise the situation by the public prosecutor at the court of appeal in whose…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Operation and control of the company

Article R814-166

…covering compliance with the legislative and regulatory provisions governing the composition of its capital and the scope of its activities. Before the end of each year, the Chairman of the National C…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Operation and control of the company

Article R814-165

Where several persons appointed as part of the collective proceedings hold, directly or indirectly, shares in the same company, they shall inform the court without delay.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Dissolution and liquidation of the company

Article R814-169

…company, the copy of the dispatch provided for in the first paragraph of which any interested party may obtain communication. He may not take up his duties until the aforementioned formalities have be…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Provisions common to all financing bodies

Article L214-168

…the one hand, to be exposed to the risks, including insurance risks, referred to in article L. 214-175-1 and, on the other hand, to finance or hedge them in full, under the conditions provided for in…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Financial guarantee.

Article R512-16

I. - The financial guarantee is implemented on the sole grounds that the guaranteed intermediary is in default, without the guarantor being able to invoke the benefit of discussion against the credito…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R1110-16

Each year, the national councils of the professional associations, in the case of health professionals against whom complaints have been lodged, and the Director of the Union nationale des caisses d'a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable income

Article 163 bis D

…of free shares and payment deadlines, as provided for in amended articles 11, 12 and 13 of law no. 86-912 of 6 August 1986 relating to the terms and conditions of application of the privatisations dec…

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