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Showing 42114220 of 57385 articles for Art. L 641-3 · Cass. com. 20 March 2019 n° 17-20.629

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Presentation and payment

Article L131-37

The drawee may require payment of the cheque by the bearer.The bearer may not refuse partial payment.If the provision is less than the amount of the cheque, the bearer has the right to demand payment…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article L211-3

Financial securities issued on French territory and subject to French law are registered either in a securities account held by the issuer or by one of the intermediaries mentioned in 2° to 7° of Arti…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Fundamental missions

Article L141-3

…ed from authorising overdrafts or granting any other type of credit to the Treasury or any other public body or company. The direct acquisition by the Banque de France of their debt securities is also…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Successive contracts in the same position.

Article L1244-3

When a fixed-term employment contract expires, neither a fixed-term contract nor a temporary employment contract may be used to fill the position of the employee whose contract has expired, before the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Settlement of certain claims.

Article L643-3

The juge-commissaire may, ex officio or at the request of the liquidator or a creditor, order provisional payment of a share of a claim that has been definitively admitted. This provisional payment ma…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Consignment subject to authorisation by the liberty and custody judge

Article L512-35

The deposit is made with the authorisation of the liberty and custody judge of the judicial court within whose jurisdiction the places where the disputed goods are held are located. This judge is seiz…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Equal access for people with disabilities.

Article L6112-3

Disabled persons and persons treated as such, as referred to in article L. 5212-13, have access to all the training schemes provided for in this section in accordance with the principle of equal treat…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Dissolution

Article L5212-33

The union is dissolved:a) Either automatically on expiry of the term set by the decision establishing it or on completion of the operation it was intended to carry out or when it no longer has more th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Single chapter.

Article L1111-3

The following are not taken into account when calculating the number of employees in the company:1° Apprentices ;2° Holders of an initiative-employment contract, during the period of allocation of the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Cross-border mergers

Article L236-38

Notwithstanding article L. 223-30, the articles of limited liability companies may not provide for a majority of more than 90% of the votes of the shareholders present or represented to decide on a cr…

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