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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Assignment of the debtor's assets.

Article L642-20

Asset transfers carried out pursuant to Articles L. 642-18 and L. 642-19 are subject to the prohibitions set out in the first paragraph of Article L. 642-3. However, the juge-commissaire may, at the r…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: National register of persons prohibited from managing assets

Article R128-3

As an exception to the preceding article, in the event that the natural person who is the subject thereof or the legal entity of which he was the de jure or de facto director was registered in a trade…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Acts performed by the tutor with authorisation

Article 507-2

In the event that the estate renounced in the name of the protected person has not been accepted by another heir and as long as the State has not been sent into possession, the renunciation may be rev…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1098

If a spouse has made to his or her spouse, within the limits of article 1094-1, a gift in property, each of the children who are not descended from both spouses shall have, as far as he or she is conc…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Liquidation and partition of the community.

Article 1476

The partition of the community, in all that concerns its forms, the maintenance of indivision and preferential allocation, the licitation of property, the effects of the partition, the guarantee and t…

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

Article 769

Debts payable by the deceased, which were contracted for the purchase of property included in the estate and exempt from death duties or in the interest of such property, are set off by priority again…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
V: Partitioning and similar transactions

Article 750 bis A

Deeds of partition of inheritance and licitations of inherited property meeting the conditions set out in II of Article 750, established between 1 January 1986 and 31 December 2014, are exempt from th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Management standards applicable to investment services providers and prudential provisions applicable to investment firms

Article L533-4

Where the parent undertaking of an investment service provider other than a portfolio management company is a credit institution, an investment firm, a financial holding company, a mixed financial hol…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Management standards applicable to investment services providers and prudential provisions applicable to investment firms

Article L533-4-6

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may require a Class 2 or Class 3 investment firm to comply with a specific liquidity requirement where, on the basis of the controls and examinatio…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Management standards applicable to investment services providers and prudential provisions applicable to investment firms

Article L533-2-1

Class 1 bis investment firms are subject to the provisions of articles L. 511-41 to L. 511-50-1, with the exception of I of article L. 511-45, and are not subject to the provisions of article L. 533-4…

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