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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Duration.

Article L145-7

…been made available and provisional compensation has been paid, the amount of which is fixed in the forms provided for in Article L. 145-19.The prices and ancillary conditions of the lease may be amen…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Publication of civil status records

Article 101-1

…cedure can be implemented by dematerialised means, in particular by notaries, it replaces any other form of delivery of full copies or extracts mentioned in the previous articles. The verification pro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 148-8

…sions of Articles 140, third paragraph, 148, sixth paragraph, or 148-4, his request is made, in the forms provided for by articles 148-6 and 148-7, to the clerk of the relevant investigating chamber o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Bonds issued by associations.

Article L213-9

…d during the same period.These bonds constitute last-ranking debt instruments, issued in registered form, and are only redeemable after a minimum period of seven years. They are known as titres associ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Professional private equity funds

Article L214-159

…unds governed by articles L. 214-27 to L. 214-32-1.II. - Professional private equity funds take the form of either mutual funds or open-ended investment companies known as "private equity companies".A…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Société de libre partenariat (unincorporated partnership)

Article L214-162-9

…tenariat may have one or more sub-funds if its articles so provide. Where one or more sub-funds are formed within a société de libre partenariat, they are individually subject to the provisions applic…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Investor guarantees

Article L322-5

…egister the units or shares of the undertakings for collective investment they manage in registered form, adhere to a guarantee mechanism separate from that referred to in Article L. 322-1. The purpos…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Criminal provisions.

Article L1312-3

…s of the committees, councils and commissions sitting with it or for persons assisting them, in any form whatsoever, directly or indirectly, from companies providing services or manufacturing or marke…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L322-26-3

…nsurance companies and to give them their joint and several guarantee.Such associations may only be formed between mutual insurance companies which undertake to cede all their risks to the association…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Portfolio transfers between supplementary occupational pension funds and institutions for occupational retirement provision established in a Member State of the European Union or in a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Article L370-7

…o the prior agreement of the members and policyholders. For each contract, this agreement takes the form of: 1° A decision submitted to the general meeting when the contract is taken out by an associa…

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