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Showing 941950 of 55440 articles for Art. Cass. com. 4-2-2004 n° 01-13.516

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Cross-border demergers

Article L236-47

Assets and liabilities not expressly allocated by the draft terms of cross-border division to one or other of the companies participating in the cross-border division shall be allocated, where the int…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Cross-border demergers

Article L236-46

Cross-border division is the operation whereby a société par actions or a société à responsabilité limitée with its registered office in France participates in a division with one or more companies fa…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Consignments and deposits.

Article R518-40

Sums deposited voluntarily may only be seized in the cases, forms and under the conditions provided for in…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Consignments and deposits.

Article R518-42

In the event of the loss of a receipt, the voluntary depositor must lodge an objection based on this cause; the said objection will be published in an extract in the Official Gazette, at the expense a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Consignments and deposits.

Article R518-41

Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations or its agents will make repayments to the collector of the institution in whose name the voluntary deposit was made, in accordance with the mandates of the competent…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Liability

Article 413

Liability actions are barred after five years from the date on which the person concerned comes of age, even if the management would have continued beyond that date, or from the end of the measure if…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Liability

Article 412

All guardianship bodies are liable for damage resulting from any fault they commit in the performance of their duties.Where the fault causing the damage was committed in the organisation and operation…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Joint and several liability of guarantors.

Article 405

Guarantors are obliged, in the same way as the principal debtors, to pay the duties and taxes, financial penalties and other sums owed by the debtors whom they have guaranteed.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: The tutor

Article 406

The guardian is appointed for the duration of the guardianship.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: The tutor

Article 408

The tutor takes care of the minor's person and represents him in all acts of civil life, except in cases in which the law or custom authorises the minor to act himself. He represents the minor in cour…

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