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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Reporting serious adverse events associated with healthcare

Article R1524-5

Articles R. 1413-67 to R. 1413-73 are applicable to Wallis and Futuna in their wording resulting from Decree No. 2017-885 of 9 May 2017, subject to the following provisions: 1° Article R. 1413-68 is a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Companies of court-appointed administrators and agents

Article R814-59

The provisions of this sub-section shall apply to companies formed for the purpose of exercising the profession of judicial administrator or that of judicial representative. Subject to the provisions…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 559

If a watercourse, whether state-owned or not, removes by a sudden force a considerable and recognisable part of a riparian field, and carries it to a lower field or to the opposite bank, the owner of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 555

Where the plantations, constructions and works have been made by a third party and with materials belonging to the latter, the owner of the land has the right, subject to the provisions of paragraph 4…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 563

If a state-owned watercourse forms a new course by abandoning its old bed, the riparian owners may acquire ownership of this old bed, each in his or her own right, up to a line assumed to be drawn thr…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 558

Alluvion does not take place in respect of lakes and ponds, the owner of which always retains the land that the water covers when it is at the level of the discharge of the pond, even if the volume of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 554

The owner of the land who has made constructions, plantations and works with materials that did not belong to him must pay the estimated value at the date of payment; he may also be ordered to pay dam…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 562

If a watercourse, in forming a new branch, cuts across and embraces the field of a riparian owner, and makes an island of it, that owner retains ownership of his field, even though the island has form…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 564

…rabbits, fish, which pass into another dovecote, rabbit warren or body of water referred to in articles L. 431-6 and L. 431-7 of the Environment Code belong to their owner, provided they have not been…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 552

Property of the ground carries with it ownership of the land above and below.The owner may make above it all the plantations and constructions he deems appropriate, subject to the exceptions set out i…

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