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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of asset freezing orders issued by foreign authorities

Article 695-9-19

Reasons shall be given for any refusal to execute an order freezing property or evidence. It shall be notified without delay to the judicial authority of the issuing State by any means that leaves a w…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Defects in consent

Article 1143

Violence also exists when a party, abusing the state of dependence in which his co-contractor finds himself towards him, obtains from him a commitment which he would not have entered into in the absen…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Introductory provisions

Article 1110

An OTC contract is one in which the stipulations are negotiable between the parties.An adhesion contract is one that includes a set of non-negotiable clauses, determined in advance by one of the parti…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Translative effect

Article 1196

In contracts the object of which is the alienation of ownership or the assignment of another right, the transfer takes place when the contract is concluded. This transfer may be deferred by the will o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Interrogations and confrontations

Article 118

…it transpires that the acts of which the person under investigation is accused under a correctional charge actually constitute a crime, the examining magistrate shall notify the person, after inform…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 2: Removal credit.

Article 114

1. Receivers of Customs may allow goods to be removed as and when they are checked and before the obligations laid down in a to c of 1 of Article 113 have been fulfilled, subject to a duly bonded tend…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Defects in consent

Article 1130

Error, fraud and violence vitiate consent when they are of such a nature that, without them, one of the parties would not have contracted or would have contracted on substantially different terms. The…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Content of the contract

Article 1167

Where the price or any other element of the contract must be determined by reference to an index which does not exist or has ceased to exist or to be accessible, the index shall be replaced by the ind…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Invalidity

Article 1178

A contract that does not fulfil the conditions required for its validity is null and void. Nullity must be pronounced by the judge, unless the parties establish it by mutual agreement. The annulled co…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection IV: Legal separation

Article 1130

The declaration of resumption of cohabitation is entered in the margin of the marriage certificate and the birth certificate of each of the spouses. The same entries are made at the request of the not…

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