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Showing 56615670 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 Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Payment service providers

Article L521-6

…his is necessary to ensure the prevention, investigation and detection of payment fraud. The communication to individuals of information on the processing of personal data and the processing of such p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Receipt of applications for judicial review decisions

Article 696-66

…as well as all decisions to extend, modify or release measures already ordered and recognised. It may obtain or have obtained any additional information it deems useful. Where the certificate referr…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: How usufruct ends

Article 621

In the event of the simultaneous sale of the usufruct and bare ownership of a property, the price is divided between the usufruct and bare ownership according to the respective value of each of these…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Party walls and ditches

Article 654

…oping or stone fillets and corbels which would have been put there when building the wall. In these cases, the wall is deemed to belong exclusively to the owner on whose side the coping or stone corbe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The Borough Council

Article L2511-6

…NATION OF SECTORSARRONDISSEMENTS1st sector1st and 7th2th sector2th and 3e3e sector4e and 5e4e sector6e and 8e5e sector9th and 10th6th sector11th and 12th sector

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Definitions and classification principles

Article R4411-6

Substances and mixtures are considered to be hazardous if they meet the classification criteria relating to physical, health or environmental hazards set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Prosecution and jurisdiction

Article 693

…ff, destination or landing of the aircraft. These provisions are not exclusive of the possible application of the specific rules of jurisdiction provided by articles 628-1,697-3,704-1,705,706-17,706-7…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section VI: Place of service.

Article 691

Notifications intended for the public prosecutor and those that must be made to the public prosecutor's office shall be made, as the case may be, to the public prosecutor's office of the court before…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IV: Rules specific to the notification of judgments.

Article 680

The document notifying a party of a judgment must indicate very clearly the time limit for lodging an objection, an appeal or an appeal in cassation in the event that one of these means of appeal is o…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Provisions relating to the public establishment for the protection of Mediterranean forests

Article L1424-67

People employed by an association, created before the date of promulgation of the loi n° 2004-811 du 13 août 2004de modernisation de la sécurité civile, whose dissolution results from the full transfe…

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