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Showing 551560 of 49119 articles for Art. L 145-16 · Cass. 3e civ. 11 February 1987 · Cass. 3e civ. 23 July 1986 · Cass. 3e civ. 29 February 1972 · Cass. com. 26 October 1993

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions.

Article L228-29-9

Holders of securities governed by this section have, except where Article L. 225-138, a pre-emptive right to subscribe for the preference shares referred to in article L. 228-11 when these confer righ…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Contracts relating to liquefied petroleum gas

Article L224-23

Any sums paid in advance by the consumer to the trader shall be returned to him, subject to the payment of any outstanding invoices, at the latest within thirty days of the payment of the last invoice…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-section 2: Powers exercised on behalf of the municipality.

Article L2122-23

Decisions taken by the mayor pursuant to article L. 2122-22 are subject to the same rules as those applicable to deliberations by municipal councils on the same subjects. Unless otherwise stipulated i…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 2: Infrastructure management

Article L4424-23

The Corsican territorial collectivity is competent, under the conditions laid down in the civil aviation code, to create, develop, maintain and manage aerodromes and, where applicable, to extend their…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Formation of the jury

Article 299

If there are several defendants, they may agree to exercise their challenges; they may exercise them separately. In either case, they may not exceed the number of challenges determined for a single ac…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal dissemination of inventions

Article L612-23

The National Institute of Industrial Property shall issue, at the request of any interested person or at the request of any administrative authority, a documentary notice citing the elements of the st…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: The audit incident.

Article 294

The judge settles any difficulties in carrying out the handwriting verification, in particular as regards the determination of the comparison documents.His decision takes the form either of a simple m…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Practical procedures and deadlines in the event of unauthorised or incorrectly executed payment transactions

Article L133-23

…a Payment Service User denies having authorised a payment transaction which has been executed, or claims that the payment transaction has not been executed correctly, the onus shall be on his Payment…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Shares.

Article L228-23

In a company whose shares are not admitted to trading on a regulated market, the transfer of shares or securities giving access to the capital, for any reason whatsoever, may be subject to the company…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Responsibilities

Article L2316-23

The works social and economic committees are responsible for and supervise the management of all social and cultural activities.However, establishment social and economic committees may entrust the ce…

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