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Showing 441450 of 65573 articles for Art. L 242-1 · Cass. 2e civ. 4 February 2010 · Cass. 2e civ. 1 July 2010

French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Compensation for loss resulting from non-performance of the contract

Article 1231-4

Even where the non-performance of the contract is the result of gross negligence or wilful misconduct, damages only include what is an immediate and direct consequence of the non-performance.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Contracts awarded by the national councils of the orders of the medical professions

Article R.4122-4-12

In order to organise its purchasing, the national council of the order may pool its requirements with other national councils: 1° Either in the form of central purchasing bodies, under the conditions…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Miscellaneous acts

Article A444-163-4

Documents relating to consent to adoption carried out pursuant to article 348-3 of the Civil Code give rise to the collection of a fee of €77.11.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 421-11

The grant is paid to the author at the time of the award decision. If there is more than one author, payment is made to the authors according to the agreements between them.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Judicial supervision, house arrest and pre-trial detention

Article 137-4

When the examining magistrate receives a request from the public prosecutor to remand the person in custody, and considers that this detention is not justified, and decides not to transfer the case fi…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter Va: Divorce and legal separation by mutual consent by private deed countersigned by lawyers and filed with a notary

Article 1144-4

The divorce agreement that fixes alimony or compensatory allowance in the form of a life annuity sets out the collection procedures and the rules for revising the claim, as well as the criminal penalt…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Iterative defects

Article 494-1

In the cases provided for in the first to fifth paragraphs of article 494 and if justified by special circumstances, the court may, by a specially reasoned decision, modify the judgment against which…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Business management

Article 1301-4

The personal interest of the manager in taking on the business of others does not exclude the application of the rules of business management.In this case, the burden of commitments, expenses and dama…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Unjust enrichment

Article 1303-4

…ment ascertained on the day of the expenditure, and the enrichment as it remains on the day of the claim, are valued on the day of the judgment. In the event of bad faith on the part of the enriched p…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Opposition

Article R613-44-12

The opposition procedure is closed: 1° When all opponents have withdrawn their opposition; 2° If the patent has been declared invalid by a final and binding court decision; > 3° If the proprietor of t…

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