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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 3: Sale by auction

Article L322-6

The amount of the upset price is set by the pursuing creditor. In the absence of a bid, the creditor is automatically declared the successful bidder at this amount. If the amount of the reserve price…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Tests of knowledge.

Article D4111-5

For each profession and, where applicable, each speciality, the selection board will draw up a list of successful candidates in order of merit, within the limit of the maximum number of people who may…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Unsealing.

Article 1321

Seals are successively unsealed as the inventory is compiled; they are reapplied at the end of each session.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Special provisions relating to inheritance

Article 789

When an estate includes both property taxable in mainland France or in the overseas departments and property taxable in French Polynesia, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Other debts

Article 873

The heirs are liable for the debts and charges of the succession, personally for their inheritance share, and hypothecarily for the whole; subject to their recourse either against their coheirs, or ag…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1389

Without prejudice to gifts which may be made in the forms and in the cases determined by this Code, the spouses may not make any agreement or renunciation the object of which would be to change the le…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Estimates and contracts.

Article 1796

But the owner is bound to pay in proportion to the price carried by the agreement, to their estate, the value of the works made and that of the materials prepared, only when such works or materials ca…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Debts of the deceased

Article 768

For the calculation of death duties, debts payable by the deceased are deducted when their existence on the day the succession was opened is duly justified by any means of proof compatible with the wr…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions common to judicial measures

Article 428

Judicial protection measures may only be ordered by the judge in cases of necessity and where the person's interests cannot be sufficiently provided for by implementing the future protection mandate c…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 9: Reimbursement of a payment transaction ordered by the payee or by the payer who gives a payment order via the payee

Article L133-25-2

The payer and his payment service provider may agree in the deposit account agreement or in the framework agreement for payment services that the payer is not entitled to a refund where he has given h…

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