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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Community of movables and acquests.

Article 1498

…and acquests between them, the common assets shall include, in addition to the property which would form part of them under the regime of legal community, the movable property of which the spouses had…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1396

…monial agreements before the marriage is celebrated must be recorded by a deed drawn up in the same form. No change or counter-letter is, moreover, valid without the simultaneous presence and consent…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Employee participation on the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board.

Article L2353-28

…the European Company is governed by the following provisions: 1° In the case of a European Company formed by transformation, if there is a system of employee participation in the administrative or su…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Health establishments responsible for psychiatric care without consent.

Article L3222-1-2

…ure the follow-up and promote the social reintegration of people undergoing psychiatric care in the form mentioned in 2° of I of article L. 3211-2-1. These agreements also set out the conditions under…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 1: Calculation of the estimated value of the concession contract

Article R3121-2

…n contract, the concession-granting authority takes into account in particular :1° The value of any form of option and any extensions to the term of the concession contract;2° Revenues collected from…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Practice as a company

Article R422-39

…of the meeting or the amending deed consisting of one of the originals if it is in private document form, or a copy if it has been drawn up in notarial form, shall be sent within two months to the Dir…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE I: NAME AND TERRITORY OF THE DEPARTMENT

Article L3114-1

I. - Several départements in the same region forming a single territory may, by joint decision of their departmental councils, adopted by a majority of three-fifths of the votes cast, request to be gr…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE III: THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY OF ALSACE

Article L3431-4

…ce creates a strategic committee for the teaching of the German language in Alsace, in its standard form and its dialectal variants, which brings together the rectorat and the local authorities concer…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 2: Enforcement of the judgment and compensation for damages

Article 849-14

Joining the group takes the form of a request for compensation. It shall be made by any means enabling receipt to be acknowledged, in accordance with the procedures and within the time limit determine…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Declarations to be made by legal entities

Article R123-56

…ion:1° For companies resulting from a merger or demerger, the corporate name or denomination, legal form and registered office of all the companies involved, as well as, in respect of each of them, th…

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