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Showing 11–20 of 55956 articles for “Art. Decree 2012-118 of 30 January 2012”
At the hearing, the judge hears the minor, his parents, guardian or the person or representative of the service to whom the child has been entrusted, as well as any other person whose testimony he dee…
The provisional measures provided for in the first paragraph of article 375-5 of the Civil Code, as well as the information measures provided for in article 1183 of this code, may only be taken, excep…
The judge gives notice of the initiation of proceedings to the public prosecutor; when they are not petitioners, he also gives notice to each of the parents, the guardian, the person or representative…
If a person presumed absent reappears or gives news of himself, the measures taken for his representation and the administration of his property shall, at his request, be terminated by the judge; he s…
All the clauses of a contract are to be interpreted in relation to each other, giving to each the meaning which respects the coherence of the whole act. When, with the common intention of the parties,…
The contract is interpreted according to the common intention of the parties rather than by stopping at the literal meaning of its terms. Where this intention cannot be detected, the contract is inter…
Commanders of the national navy leaving ports must complete all the formalities to which captains of merchant ships are subject.
…e act by which the person who could rely on nullity waives it. This act mentions the subject-matter of the obligation and the defect affecting the contract. Confirmation can only take place after the…
…e covered by confirmation. If the action for relative nullity has several holders, the renunciation of one does not prevent the others from acting.
Where the cause of nullity affects only one or more clauses of the contract, it entails nullity of the entire act only if that clause or those clauses constituted a determining element of the commitme…
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