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Showing 42014210 of 21140 articles for Art. Cass. com. 27 April 1993 · Cass. civ. 21 July 1937

French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Expertise procedure

Article R1142-63-28

Any experts appointed by the Chairman of the College shall send their draft report to the claimant and, where applicable, to the claimant's counsel, who shall have a period of fifteen days in which to…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Distribution

Article R3252-34

In the event of seizure of sums due by way of remuneration, the sums paid to the registrar of the judicial court or, where applicable, of one of its local chambers, shall be distributed at least every…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Information

Article R4425-1

The employer shall provide written instructions and, where appropriate, posters in the workplace on the procedure to be followed: 1° In the event of an accident or serious incident involving a biologi…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 5: Transitional provisions

Article L2333-16

…ollecting in 2008 the tax provided for by article L. 2333-6 or that provided for by article L. 2333-21, in their wording prior to 1st January 2009, this tax is replaced, from 1st January 2009, by that…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Federal performance projects

Article R221-19

…tructures called "pôles France" or "pôles Espoirs" that meet the conditions set out in articles R. 221-20 and R. 221-21.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article 706-95-11

…to [Provisions declared to be unconstitutional by Constitutional Council Decision No 2019-778 DC of 21 March 2019.] one of the offences falling within the scope of Articles 706-73 and 706-73-1 require…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Constitution.

Article R322-44

…formation fund of at least :-400,000 euros for the operations referred to in Articles 10 to 15, 20, 21, 22, 24 and 25 of Article R. 321-1 and for reinsurance operations;-240,000 for operations in clas…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Technical and accounting rules.

Article R441-7-5

…reement on a uniform proportional basis apply articles R. 441-7 to R. 441-7-3, R. 441-12 and R. 441-21. For the purposes of these articles, the following definitions apply: "the treaty" where "the agr…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Fonds de compensation des risques de l'assurance de la construction.

Article R431-59

…raph of article 1 of decree no. 62-235 of 1 March 1962 amended by article 1 of decree no. 76-879 of 21 September 1976, and for the departments of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle, in article 3 of decre…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 4: Closure of proceedings

Article L742-20

…ation that the debtor is clearly in the situation defined in the second paragraph of Article L. 742-21, the judge may open and close the personal recovery procedure with judicial liquidation for insuf…

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