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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Applications for partition.

Article 822

If the deceased leaves one or more minor descendants, maintenance of joint ownership may be requested either by the surviving spouse, by any heir, or by the legal representative of the minors. If ther…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Applications for partition.

Article 821

Failing an amicable agreement, the joint ownership of any agricultural, commercial, industrial, craft or liberal enterprise, which was operated by the deceased or his spouse, may be maintained under t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Applications for partition.

Article 823

Maintenance in undivided ownership may not be prescribed for a period of more than five years. It may be renewed, in the case provided for in the first paragraph of Article 822, until the youngest of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Applications for partition.

Article 818

The same option belongs to the undivided co-owner in bare ownership for the undivided bare ownership. In the event of a licitation of full ownership, the second paragraph of article 815-5 shall apply.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Applications for partition.

Article 816

Partition may be requested, even when one of the undivided co-owners has enjoyed all or part of the undivided property separately, if there has been no deed of partition or sufficient possession to ac…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Calculation of sums held in the automatic foreign promotion account

Article 721-11

The sums representing the automatic financial aid to which foreign sales companies are entitled are calculated on the basis of commercial representation in cinemas, making available to the public on s…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3. Digital assets

Article 150 VH bis

I. - Subject to the provisions specific to professional profits, capital gains realised by natural persons domiciled for tax purposes in France within the meaning of Article 4 B, directly or through a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-section 3: Mixed holding companies and mixed parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-4-1

A mixed-activity holding company is a parent undertaking other than an establishment, a financial holding company or a mixed-activity financial holding company, which includes at least one establishme…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Common provisions

Article R1132-4-1

The commission of genetic counsellors referred to in articles L. 1132-3 and L. 1132-5 is attached to the prefect of a region designated by order of the Minister for Health. It comprises :1° The region…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Treatment and cleaning products and processes

Article R*1321-52

Applications for authorisation of the laboratories mentioned in II of Article R. 1321-48 and II of Article R. 1321-50 shall be sent to the Minister for Health.An order of the Minister for Health, issu…

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