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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Effects of the appeal in cassation.

Article 625

…set aside or which is connected to it by a link of necessary dependence.If so requested, the Court may, in the operative part of the judgment of cassation, rule that the parties whose presence before…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Costs.

Article 696

…charges all or part of them to another party.The conditions under which a party receiving legal aid may be charged all or part of the costs of the proceedings are set by the provisions of Law no. 91-6…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Party walls and ditches

Article 668

…r of that ditch or hedge to surrender the common ownership to him. The joint owner of a party hedge may destroy it up to the boundary of his property, on condition that he builds a wall on that bounda…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5: Right of way

Article 682

…ent to ensure that his land is fully served, subject to compensation proportionate to the damage he may cause.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689

The perpetrators or accomplices of offences committed outside the territory of the Republic may be prosecuted and tried by the French courts either when, in accordance with the provisions of Book I of…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Information for employees in the event of the sale of their company

Article L23-10-6

…the sale, the sale has already been the subject of information pursuant to article 18 de la loi n° 2014-856 du 31 juillet 2014 relative à l'économie sociale et solidaire.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter III: Operation

Article 133-4

The Commission may draw up its own rules of procedure, covering in particular the ethical obligations of its members, which shall be approved by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Views onto a neighbour's property

Article 678

No person may have straight views or windows of appearance, nor balconies or other similar projections on the enclosed or unenclosed inheritance of his neighbour, unless there is a distance of ninetee…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 69

…e, the Public Prosecutor or the Examining Magistrate, when proceeding as described in this chapter, may travel to the jurisdictions of the courts bordering the one in which he or she exercises his or…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Jurisdiction over vocational training and apprenticeships where there is no social and economic committee

Article R2312-60

…uted for the social and economic committee for the application of the provisions of: 1° Articles L. 6322-6 and R. 6322-3 to R. 6322-11, relating to individual training leave; 2° Article L. 6331-12, re…

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