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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: Personal property

Article 760

For term claims, the duty is levied on the capital expressed in the deed and which is the subject of the deed.However, gratuitous transfer duties are liquidated on the basis of the estimated declarati…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Publication of compassionate access authorisations

Article R5121-74-11

…he healthcare professionals concerned must not constitute advertising within the meaning of Article L. 5122-1. These measures are subject to the prior opinion of the Agence nationale de sécurité du mé…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7b: Compassionate prescribing frameworks

Article R5121-76-11

Any measures taken by the marketing authorisation holder or the company operating the marketing authorisation to disseminate the compassionate prescribing framework or any information relating to this…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Conversion of sentences

Article 747-1-1

…ng the obligation to perform community service into a sentence of days' fine or a sentence of home detention under electronic surveillance; 2° To convert a sentence of home detention under electronic…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
d: Special schemes for agriculture

Article 708

Exchanges of rural property carried out in accordance with articles L. 124-3 and L. 124-4 of the rural and maritime fishing code are exempt from land registration tax or, where applicable, registratio…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Rules common to movable and immovable property

Article 763

Where the transfer relates solely to bare ownership or usufruct, deeds and declarations relating to gratuitous transfers must disclose the date and place of birth of the usufructuary; and, if the birt…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Rights of parents in the absence of a spouse entitled to inherit.

Article 733

The law does not distinguish according to the methods of establishing filiation to determine the parents called to succeed. The rights resulting from adoptive filiation are regulated under adoption.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction

Article 706-17-2

…Public Prosecutor. It constitutes a measure of judicial administration which is not subject to appeal.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction

Article 706-22-1

…cour d'assises des mineurs de Paris ruling pursuant to Article 706-17, regardless of the place of detention or residence of the convicted person. To make decisions concerning persons convicted of an…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Surveillance

Article 706-80-1

Where there are one or more plausible grounds for suspecting persons of having committed one of the offences falling within the scope of Articles 706-73,706-73-1 or 706-74, in the context of a surveil…

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