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Showing 931940 of 65061 articles for Art. Cass. com. 9 March 1953 · Cass. 3e civ. 23 May 1995 · Cass. 3e civ. 21 July 1999 · Cass. com. 3 June 2014 · Cass. com. 2 June 1958 · Cass. 3e civ. 15 January 1971 · Cass. 3e civ. 20 November 1997 · Cass. 3e civ. 7 December 2010

French Civil CodeIn force
Title XIV: Trusts

Article 2022

…hall report on its mission to the beneficiary and to the third party designated pursuant to Article 2017, at their request, at intervals set by the contract.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title XIV: Trusts

Article 2012

The trust is established by law or by contract. It must be express.If the property, rights or securities transferred to the trust patrimony depend on the community existing between the spouses or on a…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: The different ways in which the term of office ends.

Article 2003

The mandate ends:By the revocation of the mandatary,By the latter's renunciation of the mandate,By the death, guardianship of adults or the insolvency of either the principal or the mandatary.The mand…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title XVII: Participatory procedure agreement

Article 2066

Without prejudice to

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Investor information

Article L214-23-2

…the economy shall determine the list of information referred to in this I which is made public and may be relied upon by third parties and, among this list, the information whose provision or dissemi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L5125-23-2

By way of derogation from I of article L. 5125-23, the pharmacist may dispense, by way of substitution for the biological medicinal product prescribed, a similar biological medicinal product where the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Right of the Board of Directors to impose sanctions - Suspension or reduction of funding

Article R2135-23

In the cases provided for in the third paragraph of article L. 2135-16, the Board of Directors may, by means of a resolution adopted in accordance with the procedures defined in the third paragraph of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Declaration of claims.

Article R622-21

…known creditors of having to declare their claims to him within the period mentioned in Article R. 622-24. The co-contractors mentioned in articles L. 622-13 and L. 622-14 benefit from a period of one…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 6: Committees - Representation on outside bodies.

Article L3121-23

The departmental council appoints its members or delegates to sit on outside bodies in the cases and under the conditions laid down by the provisions governing these bodies. The fixing by the aforemen…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions (R).

Article R2334-23

…n, the Prefect will inform the applicant that the application is complete, as defined in article R. 2334-22, or will request the production of any missing documents. In the latter case, the deadline i…

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