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Showing 2130 of 55685 articles for Art. Cass. soc. 5 November 1987 · Cass. soc. 2 April 1998 · Cass. soc. 2 July 1981 · Cass. soc. 5 November 2009 · Cass. soc. 29 June 2017 · Cass. soc. 28 September 2010 · Cass. soc. 24 October 1989 · CA Paris 16 December 2009

French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Obtaining a speciality by a court-appointed administrator already on the list referred to in article L. 811-2

Article R811-28-5

…ination, may have the mention of that speciality entered on the list provided for in Article L. 811-2.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Assessment of judicial environmental officers

Article R15-33-29-28

…ion the headquarters of the department to which the judicial environmental officer is attached is located, after collecting, where applicable, the observations of the examining magistrates and the pre…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Pledge of goods represented by a storage receipt

Article R522-24-5

…ts effect ceases if the registration has not been renewed before the expiry of this period. In this case, the platform manager automatically deletes the registration.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Appeals to the First President of the Paris Court of Appeal against certain decisions of the General Rapporteur of the Competition Authority

Article R464-24-5

The application for a stay of execution shall be made by way of a writ of summons in accordance with the procedures set out in the second paragraph of article 485 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Continuing vocational training

Article R814-28-5

The training mentioned in 1° to 4° of article R. 814-28-4 shall be completed with the Conseil national des administrateurs judiciaires et des mandataires judiciaires, university establishments or trai…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Custodian

Article L214-24-5

The custodian is chosen from a list of entities drawn up by the Minister responsible for the economy. AIF custodians may delegate their duties under the conditions laid down in the general regulations…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Operating rules

Article L214-24-51

…1° Net income plus retained earnings plus or minus the balance of the income equalisation account;2° Realised capital gains, net of costs, less realised capital losses, net of costs, recorded during…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Involuntary hospitalisation

Article D47-29-5

…erson is not criminally responsible does not decide to have the person hospitalised involuntarily because such hospitalisation has already been ordered by the State representative pursuant to the prov…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: The nature and form of the mandate.

Article 1987

It is either special and for a case or certain cases only, or general and for all the principal's cases.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: The nature and form of the mandate.

Article 1989

The agent cannot do anything beyond what is carried in his mandate: the power to compromise does not contain the power to compromise.

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