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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 5: Maintaining the business.

Article R641-21

…the administrator where one has been appointed, the extension provided for in 1° of III of Article L. 641-11-1. The juge-commissaire notes, at the request of any interested party, the automatic termi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Referral to and decision by the court.

Article R641-3

…oints at least a second judicial representative as liquidator pursuant to the provisions of Article L. 641-1-2, the number of secondary establishments mentioned in 1° of Article L. 621-4-1 and the thr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Referral to and decision by the court.

Article R641-8

…le R. 621-7 a document reproducing the terms of II of this article, as well as:1° Those of articles L. 812-2, L. 814-5, L. 814-10, the last paragraph of II of article L. 641-1, articles L. 641-8, R. 8…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution

Article L784-16

Article L. 641-1, as amended by Law 2013-672 of 26 July 2013, is applicable in French Polynesia.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution

Article L783-16

Article L. 641-1, as amended by Law 2013-672 of 26 July 2013, is applicable in New Caledonia.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution

Article L785-15

Article L. 641-1, as amended by Law 2013-672 of 26 July 2013, is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Transfers by death

Article 641

The time limits for the registration of the declarations that the heirs, donees or legatees have to make of the property due to them or transmitted by death are: Six months, from the day of death, whe…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Calculation of time limits.

Article 641

Where a time limit is expressed in days, the day of the act, event, decision or notification which causes it to run shall not count. Where a time limit is expressed in months or years, the time limit…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Easements deriving from the location of premises

Article 641

Any owner has the right to use and dispose of rainwater that falls on his land.If the use of this water or the direction given to it aggravates the natural flow easement established by article 640, co…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Simplified judicial liquidation.

Article L644-1-1

When the liquidator carries out the inventory pursuant to article L. 641-2 and if the value of the assets justifies it, the official receiver shall appoint, for the purpose of carrying out the valuati…

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