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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
Section 2: Validity of the contract

Article 1128

…e validity of a contract: 1° The consent of the parties; 2° Their capacity to contract; 3° A lawful and certain content.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 2: Cash payment.

Article 111

1. Duties and taxes are not payable on goods which the customs administration accepts to be abandoned in its favour. 2. Goods whose surrender is accepted by the customs administration shall be sold un…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 4: Special provisions for accepted divorces

Article 1123

…he facts giving rise to it.This acceptance may be recorded in a procès-verbal drawn up by the judge and signed by the spouses and their respective lawyers at any hearing on provisional measures.During…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2 : Commission nationale d'aménagement cinématographique (National Cinematographic Development Commission)

Article R212-6-11

The Commission nationale d'aménagement cinématographique draws up its own rules of procedure.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 2: Cash payment.

Article 110

1. Duties and taxes assessed by the customs service are payable in cash. 2. Officials responsible for collecting duties and taxes are obliged to issue receipts. 3. Registers of payment of duties and t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions specific to contracts concluded by electronic means

Article 1175

…s are made to the provisions of the previous article for private-signature deeds relating to family and inheritance law, except for private-signature agreements countersigned by lawyers in the presenc…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions.

Article R322-119-3

…for in the first sentence of article R. 322-106-10 do not apply to the bodies mentioned in article L. 771-1 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code. In the event of a merger involving the creation of…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: The adoption procedure

Article 1174

…ered in open court. Its operative part specifies whether it is a full adoption or a simple adoption and contains the particulars prescribed by article 1056. It also contains, where full adoption is gr…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Presumption of absence

Article 113

…e person presumed absent in the exercise of his rights or in any act in which he may be interested, and to administer all or part of his property ; the representation of the person presumed absent and…

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