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Showing 48914900 of 7437 articles for Art. TEPA Act 21 August 2007

French Public Health CodeIn force
Preliminary chapter: Human rights

Article L1110-12

…articipate directly on behalf of the same patient in the performance of a diagnostic or therapeutic act, the compensation of disability, the relief of pain or the prevention of loss of autonomy, or in…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Other conditions of access and practice.

Article L512-3

…d or renew their registration, insurance or reinsurance intermediaries and insurance intermediaries acting on an ancillary basis are required to provide the body that keeps the register provided for i…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter IV: Seizure of assets placed in a safe deposit box

Article R224-10

…urn shall be served on the person required to hand them over on the first working day following the act of seizure provided for in Article…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Qualifications for succession.

Article 727

…s perpetrator or accomplice, to a criminal or correctional penalty for having committed torture and acts of barbarism, deliberate violence, rape or sexual assault against the deceased ;3° One who is c…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Rights and obligations of undivided co-owners.

Article 815-14

…on outside the joint ownership is required to notify the other undivided co-owners by extrajudicial act of the price and conditions of the proposed transfer and the name, domicile and profession of th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Extra-contractual liability in general

Article 1242

One is liable not only for the damage caused by one's own act, but also for that caused by the act of persons for whom one is answerable, or of things in one's custody. However, a person who holds, in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Provisions applicable before the Examining Magistrate and the Examining Chamber

Article 706-120

…here are sufficient charges against the person under investigation for having committed the alleged acts, that there are plausible reasons for applying the first paragraph of article 122-1 of the Crim…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Rules governing the practice of the profession

Article L4311-12-1

Persons belonging to the health reserve provided for in article L. 3132-1, carrying out an activity as part of a commitment to serve in the operational reserve provided for in article L. 4211-1 of the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Bills of exchange

Article L511-40

…uired for cheques or money orders created for the settlement between bankers of the balance of transactions carried out between them through a clearing house. If settlement is made by means of an ordi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE V: Liabilities and sanctions.

Article L653-3

…ons provided for in the last paragraph of I of the same article, against whom one of the following facts has been identified:1° Having abusively pursued a loss-making operation which could only lead t…

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