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Showing 591600 of 62190 articles for Art. R. 123-54 and R. 123-103 · C. civ. Art. 1857

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration.

Article L123-6

The trade and companies register is kept by the registrar of each commercial court, under the supervision of the president or a judge appointed for this purpose, who have jurisdiction over any dispute…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration.

Article L123-9

…s, invoke against third parties or public administrations, who may, however, invoke them, the facts and acts subject to mention unless the latter have been published in the register. In addition, a pe…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration.

Article L123-7

…presumption of merchant status. However, this presumption is not enforceable against third parties and administrations that provide proof to the contrary. Third parties and public authorities are not…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Maintenance of the register and effects of registration.

Article L123-8

…However, it may not invoke its failure to be entered in the register to evade the responsibilities and obligations inherent in that status. Without prejudice to the application of Article L. 144-7, a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Keeping the national register of companies

Article L123-53

Unrestricted access is granted to all the information and attachments contained in the register, as well as to the supporting documents kept: 1° Registered persons for data concerning them; > The foll…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Validation and controls carried out by the registrars of the commercial courts or the judicial courts ruling on commercial matters

Article L123-42

…to enter a piece of information or the declaration that a document has been deposited in the Trade and Companies Register, the Special Register of Commercial Agents or the Special Register of Sole Pr…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 4: Validation and controls carried out by the departmental or multidepartmental mutual benefit funds for agriculture (caisses départementales ou pluridépartementales de mutualité sociale agricole)

Article L123-48

Information entries and filings of documents in the national register of companies requested in connection with applications for registration, amending entries and deregistrations, are validated, for…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter III: Third parties

Article L123-1

…penalty of a fine, without prejudice to damages. Under the same conditions, a third party in whose hands a seizure has been made may also be ordered to pay the costs of the seizure, subject to recours…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Registered persons

Article A123-85

Employers and self-employed workers in non-agricultural professions subject to payment of social security and family allowance contributions under the conditions laid down by the Social Security Code…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Registered persons

Article A123-86

…on procedures defined by a joint order of the Minister for Defence or the Minister for the Interior and the Minister for the Economy..

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