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Showing 971980 of 56769 articles for Art. L 144-10 · C. civ. Art. 1709 · Cass. com. 11 May 1971 · Cass. com. 23 March 1999 n° 97-15.000

French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Terms and conditions of implementation

Article L6211-11

The biologist in charge of the medical biology laboratory to which the patient has referred retains responsibility for all phases of the medical biology examination, including when one of them, in the…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: Administrative regime for ships

Article 230

1. Subject to the provisions of 2 below, articles incorporated into French ships outside the Customs territory are treated as if they were imported directly into the part of the Customs territory wher…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Organisation of the Order.

Article L4232-11

Pharmacists registered in a Section E delegation elect pairs of delegates for their delegation for a period of six years.The pairs are distributed as follows:1° Two pairs are made up of pharmacists fr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Voting and electoral operations.

Article L723-11

Elections are held annually in each commercial court where there are seats to be filled for any reason. If, during the course of the year, the number of vacancies exceeds one third of the staff of a c…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L5141-10

Pursuant to Articles 110 and 116 of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of 11 December 2018 on veterinary medicinal products, the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Compensation procedures.

Article L211-11

Where the insurer could not, through no fault of its own, have been aware that the accident had imposed disbursements on the third party payers referred to in article 29 of law no. 85-677 of 5 July 19…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IX: Taxation of partnerships, joint ventures, public interest groups, limited liability companies, limited liability farms and professional non-trading companies. Option for capital companies

Article 239

1. The companies and groupings mentioned in 3 of article 206 may opt, under conditions which are set by ministerial order, for the system applicable to capital companies. In this case, the income tax…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General privileges

Article 2331

Other than those provided for by special laws, privileged claims on the generality of movables are: 1° Legal costs, on condition that they have benefited the creditor against whom the lien is asserted…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
SINGLE CHAPTER

Article L3221-11

The president, by delegation of the departmental council , may be entrusted, for the duration of his mandate, with taking any decision concerning the preparation, award, performance and settlement of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Autonomous guarantee

Article 2321

…autonomous guarantee is the undertaking by which the guarantor undertakes, in consideration of an obligation entered into by a third party, to pay a sum either on first demand or in accordance with ag…

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