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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Third-party proceedings.

Article 583

Any person who has an interest therein is admissible to lodge third-party proceedings, provided that he was neither a party nor represented in the judgment which he is contesting. The creditors and ot…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Respective rights and duties of spouses

Article 215

The spouses mutually bind themselves to a community of life. The family's residence is at the place they choose by mutual agreement. The spouses may not, one without the other, dispose of the rights b…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Guardianship and trusteeship

Article 440

A person who, without being incapable of acting himself, needs, for one of the reasons provided for in Article 425, to be assisted or controlled in a continuous manner in the important acts of civil l…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 2: Relations between sports associations and companies and their supporters

Article D224-5

Sports associations or companies taking part in competitions organised by a professional league designate, in application of article L. 224-3, one or more reference persons, who may be volunteers or e…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Succession of contracts.

Article L1251-36

When an assignment contract expires, neither a fixed-term contract nor an assignment contract may be used to fill the position of the employee whose contract has expired, before the expiry of a waitin…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Expiry of the contract term.

Article L1251-30

The end of the assignment provided for in the secondment contract or set out in an amendment thereto may be brought forward or postponed at the rate of one day for every five days worked. For assignme…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Subsection 1: Jurisdiction

Article R121-1

In matters of jurisdiction, any court other than the enforcement judge must declare of its own motion that it does not have jurisdiction. The enforcement judge may neither modify the terms of the cour…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The nature, amount and exercise of rights

Article 758-5

The calculation of the spouse's full ownership right provided for in articles 757 and 757-1 will be made on a mass made up of all the property existing at the death of her husband to which will be fic…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article L2361-2

When a European Cooperative Society mentioned in article L. 2361-1 is a Community-scale undertaking or a Community-scale group of undertakings within the meaning of article L. 2341-2, title IV of this…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VI: Protection of sole traders

Article L526-30

On pain of nullity of the transfer provided for in Article L. 526-27: 1° The transfer must relate to the entire business assets of the sole trader, which may not be split; 2° In the event of a contrib…

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