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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 2: Common provisions

Article R532-5

…e debtor shall be informed by a bailiff's deed, failing which the pledge shall lapse. Under penalty of nullity, this document shall contain 1° A copy of the court order or deed under which the securit…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter III: Definitive advertising

Article R533-5

If, after the sale of the property, the price has been duly paid for distribution, final publication is replaced by service of the creditor's title on the person responsible for distributing the price…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article R331-5

…ecurity interest in the immovable by destination must declare his claim is two months from the date of the summons served on him. The declaration is made by a lawyer's deed deposited at the registry o…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Preliminary Title: Publication, effects and application of laws in general

Article 5

Judges are forbidden to rule by way of general and regulatory provision on the cases submitted to them.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Decisions of the family council or the judge

Article 500

…guardian draws up the guardianship budget, determining the annual sums required for the maintenance of the protected person and the reimbursement of the costs of administering his or her property, bas…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Decisions of the family council or the judge

Article 501

…ling this, the judge prescribes all the measures it deems useful regarding the use or re-investment of the funds, either in advance or on the occasion of each transaction. The funds are used or reinve…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Right of accession in relation to movable property

Article 572

…art the material which belonged to him and in part that which did not belong to him to form a thing of a new kind, without either of the two materials being entirely destroyed, but in such a way that…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Right of accession in relation to movable property

Article 575

When the thing remains in common between the owners of the materials from which it was formed, it must be licensed for the common benefit.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Right of accession in relation to movable property

Article 574

If the material belonging to one of the owners were far superior to the other in quantity and price, in that case the owner of the material superior in value could reclaim the thing arising from the m…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Right of accession in relation to movable property

Article 566

…nevertheless separable, so that one can subsist without the other, the whole belongs to the master of the thing which forms the principal part, on the charge of paying to the other the value, estimat…

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