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Showing 39813990 of 11310 articles for Art. Loi n° 81-766 – 10 Aug. 1981 – loi Lang

French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Duration of protection

Article L123-8

The rights granted by the loi du 14 juillet 1866 sur les droits des héritiers et des ayants cause des auteurs aux héritiers et autres ayants cause des auteurs, compositeurs ou artistes sont prorogues…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE V: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MEASURES

Article L2251-3

…nicipality may entrust responsibility for creating or managing it to an association governed by the loi du 1er juillet 1901 relative au contrat d'association or to any other person; it may also grant…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Practice as a company

Article R422-30

…ven under the conditions provided for the transfer of shares by l'article 19, premier alinéa, de la loi du 29 novembre 1966. If the consent to the preferential allotment provided for in the second par…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Business property tax

Article 1458

…tmental press by virtue of the activity they carry out in accordance with the provisions of Article 10 of Law no. 87-39 of 27 January 1987 on various social measures.4° Press salespersons by virtue of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Evidence by judicial presumption

Article 1382

Presumptions which are not established by law, are left to the discretion of the judge, who must admit them only if they are serious, precise and concordant, and only in cases where the law admits pro…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of doctors.

Article R4127-18

A doctor may only carry out a voluntary interruption of pregnancy in the cases and under the conditions laid down by law; he or she is always free to refuse to do so and must inform the person concern…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES GOVERNED BY ARTICLE 73 OF THE CONSTITUTION AND FOR SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON

Article L361-4

For the application of this book in Mayotte: 1° References to the court of appeal are replaced by the reference to the appeal chamber of the court of appeal of Saint-Denis de La Réunion in Mamoudzou;…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Autorité des marchés financiers

Article L783-11

The articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in New Caledonia, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: Articles applicable In their wo…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Appeals to the Court of Cassation

Article 598

Where the sentence handed down is the same as that imposed by the law applicable to the offence, no one may seek to have the judgment set aside on the pretext that there has been an error in the citat…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L512-3

…capital subscribed may not receive interest in excess of that mentioned in article 14 of the law of 10 September 1947 on the status of cooperative societies. Any surplus profits, after allocation to r…

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