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Showing 31013110 of 55421 articles for Art. Law 2010-788 of 12 July 2010

French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Views onto a neighbour's property

Article 677

…indows or days may be established only twenty-six decimetres (eight feet) above the floor or ground of the room to be lighted, if on the ground floor, and nineteen decimetres (six feet) above the floo…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Views onto a neighbour's property

Article 679

…ame proviso, side or oblique views cannot be had on the same inheritance unless there is a distance of six decimetres.

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section 3: Regulatory capital requirement for groups.

Article R356-25-1

…ntiel et de résolution, in its capacity as group supervisor, is informed by a supervisory authority of another Member State of a request to subject a subsidiary having its registered office in that Me…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Treatment of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms in difficulty

Article R784-11

…icable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations mentioned in II, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in th…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Implementing provisions

Article R4451-110

The terms and conditions for implementing the monitoring of individual exposure in radiological emergency situations provided for in articles R. 4451-102 and R. 4451-103 are laid down by a joint order…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Effects of curatorship and guardianship on the protection of the person

Article 458

Subject to the specific provisions laid down by law, the performance of acts whose nature implies strictly personal consent may never give rise to assistance or representation of the protected person.…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Effects of curatorship and guardianship on the protection of the person

Article 463

At the opening of the measure or, failing that, at a later date, the judge or the family council if it has been constituted shall decide the conditions under which the curator or guardian entrusted wi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Effects of curatorship and guardianship on the protection of the person

Article 459-2

The protected person chooses the place of his residence. He freely maintains personal relations with any third party, whether a relative or not. He/she has the right to be visited and, where appropria…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Effects of curatorship and guardianship on the protection of the person

Article 457-1

…to his or her condition and without prejudice to the information that third parties are required by law to provide, all information on his or her personal situation, the acts concerned, their usefulne…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Effects of curatorship and guardianship on the protection of the person

Article 461

The person under curatorship may not, without the assistance of the curator, sign the agreement by which he or she enters into a civil solidarity pact. No assistance is required during the joint decla…

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