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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Presentation and payment

Article L131-42

To obtain a second lost cheque, the owner of the cheque must contact the immediate endorser, who is required to lend his name and care to act towards his own endorser, going from endorser to endorser…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Creation and form of cheque

Article L131-12

A person who signs a cheque as the representative of a person for whom he had no authority to act is himself obligated under the cheque and, if he has paid, has the same rights as the purported princi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Special rules relating to sociétés de placement à prépondérance immobilière à capital variable (real estate investment companies with variable capital)

Article L214-70

…tribution of assets are determined by the company's Articles of Association. The management company acts as liquidator, under the supervision of the custodian. Failing this, the liquidator shall be ap…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Relations between credit institutions and their customers

Article L312-1-6

The management of a deposit account for natural persons acting for professional purposes is governed by a written agreement on paper or on another durable medium, between the customer and his credit i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Organs, tissues, cells and products.

Article L1272-7

As stated in article 511-8-1 of the French Criminal Code, reproduced below: "The act of distributing or transferring cell therapy tissues or preparations for therapeutic use in breach of the provision…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter III: Seizures notified to public accountants

Article R143-3

…nts notified to public accountants and postal cheque centres or the Caisse Nationale d'Épargne, any act of seizure shall, on pain of nullity, be served on the public accountant assigning the expenditu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VI: Appeals against police judgements

Article 549

…hearing an appeal against a judgment that the police court lacks jurisdiction, if it finds that the act prosecuted constitutes a misdemeanour, shall impose the penalty and rule, if appropriate, on dam…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Effects of extradition

Article 696-39

…on shall be deemed to be unreservedly subject to the laws of the requesting State, by reason of any act prior to the extradition and different from the offence for which the extradition was ordered, i…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L512-70

…he institutions mentioned in 1 and 2 of article L. 512-69 are created or in the event of subsequent acts or deliberations are determined by the decree provided for in article L. 512-84.These instituti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Chiropodists.

Article L4322-5

Persons who have proved that they were regularly practising the profession of chiropodist on 1 May 1946 and who have received authorisation may perform, for life, the acts within the competence of chi…

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