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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Legal proceedings

Article L615-8

…om the day on which the owner of a right knew or should have known of the last fact enabling him to exercise it..

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Rescission of the sale on the ground of lesion.

Article 1685

…tely, and for that where the seller or buyer has left several heirs, are similarly observed for the exercise of the action for rescission.

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
French Sports CodeIn force
Section 1: Prohibition on entering or being in the vicinity of a venue where a sporting event is taking place

Article R332-4

…the purposes of the third paragraph of article L. 332-16, the obligation to respond to a summons is exercised with a police or gendarmerie authority in a department within whose territorial jurisdicti…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Membership of company boards of directors or supervisory boards

Article L2312-76

…porate body to which the members of the staff delegation of the Social and Economic Committee shall exercise the rights defined by this sub-section.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Provisions specific to public limited companies

Article L22-10-73

…bility action against the directors or the managing director mentioned in article L. 225-252 may be exercised by an association meeting the conditions set out in Article L. 22-10-44.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Bills of exchange

Article L511-51

Independently of the formalities prescribed for the exercise of the action in warranty, the bearer of a bill of exchange protested for lack of payment may, by obtaining the permission of the judge, se…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V : Conditions of application to the overseas regions of the second and third paragraphs of Article 73 of the Constitution

Article LO4435-1

…dapt laws and regulations in the territory of their region in the matters in which their powers are exercised..

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: General provisions

Article 1087

…reement that concern maintenance, the contribution to the upkeep and education of the child and the exercise of parental authority.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 831

…for by articles 261 and 261-1, is drawn up by territorial district and the powers of the mayor are exercised by the head of the administrative district.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV : Community of communes

Article L5214-22

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat sets the conditions under which competences previously exercised by a syndicate of communes included in whole or in part within the perimeter of the community or encompa…

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