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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Assistance in recovering damages for victims of crime.

Article L422-8

The guarantee fund may take all legal action necessary to obtain payment of damages and sums awarded in application of articles 375 or 475-1 of the code of criminal procedure from the persons responsi…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Assistance in recovering damages for victims of crime.

Article L422-9

The sums to be recovered by the guarantee fund are increased by a penalty, by way of management costs, equal to a percentage of the damages and the sums awarded in application of articles 375 or 475-1…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-section II: Lapsed estates.

Article 1354

The administration in charge of the estates is exempted from the need to use the services of a lawyer to request the dispatch of possession provided for in article 811 of the Civil Code. It arranges f…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Chapter II: Structures

Article L2412-2

…L. 311-1 et seq. of the town planning code or a subdivision defined in articles…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Missions and components of the public employment service.

Article L5311-3-1

The State may delegate to the region, under the conditions set out inarticle L. 1111-8-1 of the General Local Authorities Code and after consulting the Regional Employment, Training and Vocational Gui…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Simplified procedure

Article 528-1

A criminal order that has not been opposed has the effects of a judgment that has become res judicata. However, it does not have the authority of res judicata with regard to the civil action for damag…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Investor protection associations

Article L452-3

Any investor who has given his consent, under the conditions set out in Article L. 452-2, to the institution of proceedings before a criminal court shall be deemed to be exercising the rights of a civ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Investor protection associations

Article L452-2

…by the act of the same person and which have a common origin, any association mentioned in article L. 452-1 may, if it has been mandated by at least two of the investors concerned, bring an action fo…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter II: Investor protection associations

Article L452-4

An association taking legal action under articles L. 452-2 and L. 452-3 may bring a civil action before the examining magistrate or the court in the place where the defendant has its registered office…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Public auction sales.

Article L320-2

Public auctions are sales involving a third party, acting as agent for the owner or his representative, to offer and award an item to the highest bidder following a competitive bidding process that is…

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