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Showing 56915700 of 24215 articles for Art. Cass. com. 26-10-1964 n° 63-11.153

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Investigation, authorisation, refusal, renewal

Article R5121-74-3

I.- Authorisation for compassionate access is granted by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé for the duration of treatment of the patient in…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 6: Foreign nationals exempt from applying for a residence permit

Article R431-18

Foreign nationals mentioned in 6° to 11° and 13° to 18° of article R. 431-16 who wish to remain in France beyond the time limits mentioned in the same article apply for a temporary residence permit or…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
1. Functions.

Article R6152-27

In application of article R. 6152-26, the length of the weekly shift is fixed, but may not exceed forty-eight hours per week, calculated as an average over a period of four months. When work is perfor…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Hospital duties for odontology students.

Article R6153-72

As from their enrolment in the first year of the second cycle, the odontology hospital students mentioned in article R. 6153-63 receive remuneration, the annual amount of which is set by order of the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Acquisition of French nationality by marriage

Article 21-4

The Government may oppose, by decree in the Council of State, on the grounds of unworthiness or lack of assimilation, other than linguistic, the acquisition of French nationality by the foreign spouse…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XVI: Prosecution, investigation and trial of drug trafficking offences

Article 706-33

In the event of prosecution for one of the offences referred to in Article 706-26, the investigating judge may provisionally order, for a period of up to six months, the closure of any hotel, furnishe…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Capital increase.

Article L3332-21

The General Meeting which decides on the capital increase may provide for the free allocation of shares or other securities giving access to the capital. The total benefit resulting from this allocati…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Verification of claims.

Article R624-2

The list of claims containing the information provided for in article L. 622-25 and in article R. 622-23 together with the proposals of the mandataire judiciaire and the observations of the debtor, wi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Decision

Article R4126-29

The decision contains the names of the parties, the professional qualification of the practitioner who is the subject of the complaint, an analysis of the conclusions and pleadings as well as referenc…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Professional non-trading companies

Article R422-16

Without prejudice to the provisions which, pursuant to Articles 10 and 11 of Law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966, the articles of association must include those which, by virtue of the articles 8, 14,…

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