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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions specific to securitisation undertakings

Article D214-232-3

…into such contracts does not fall within the discretionary management referred to in Article D. 214-232 when it is taken alternatively: 1° Under the conditions listed exhaustively in the securitisatio…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Deduction of withholding tax and tax credits

Article 199 ter B

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Demergers and partial contributions of assets

Article 817

I. - The provisions of article 816 and of II of Article 816 A applies to demergers and partial contributions of assets.II. - (Repealed for transactions carried out on or after 15 October 1993).

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Gambling and betting.

Article 1966

…ll and the exercise of the body, are excepted from the preceding provision. Nevertheless, the court may reject the claim when the sum appears excessive.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Provisions relating to portfolio management companies

Article R533-16-0

…ed annually to the co-contracting investor referred to in II of Article L. 533-22. This information may be communicated at the same time as the annual report provided for in article L. 214-23 or the r…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Effects of the contract between the contracting parties.

Article 1979

…whatever the duration of the life of these persons, and whatever onerous the service of the annuity may have become.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Effects of the guarantee between the creditor and the guarantor

Article 2302

…definite period, of his right to terminate it at any time and the conditions under which this right may be exercised. The present article also applies to the professional guarantor. This article also…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 191

…ot been contracted publicly, and which has not been celebrated before the competent public officer, may be contested, within a period of thirty years from its celebration, by the spouses themselves, b…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 192

…have not been observed, the public prosecutor will have a fine imposed on the public official which may not exceed 4.5 euros and on the contracting parties, or those under whose power they have acted,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 9: Special provisions for forestry savings companies governed by Article L. 214-121.

Article R214-167

…company whose sole purpose is to hold woodland and forests, the second paragraph of article R. 214-166 also applies to the forest assets of the forestry group or the company whose sole purpose is to…

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