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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter II: Seizable assets

Article L112-1

Seizures can be made of all assets belonging to the debtor, even if they are held by third parties. They may also relate to conditional, time-barred or successive performance claims. The terms and con…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R355-2

The requirements in terms of content, timeframe and procedures for transmitting the information referred to in Article L. 355-1 are specified in Articles 290 to 297,300,301,303 and 304 to 314 of Commi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Rights of the seller of furniture, claims and restitutions.

Article L624-10-1

Where the right to restitution has been recognised under the conditions set out in Articles L. 624-9 or L. 624-10 and the asset is the subject of a contract in progress on the date the proceedings are…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Arrest and surrender

Article 627-9

Applications for release or the lifting or modification of judicial supervision or electronically monitored house arrest may be made at any time to the Investigating Chamber of the Paris Court of Appe…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Authorisation and swearing-in of agents

Article R331-5

…ined in articles R. 331-2 and R. 331-3 take an oath before the judge of the judicial court of their residence, at the seat of this court or, where applicable, of one of its local chambers. The wording…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Powers of the Regional Council

Article L4433-4-5-3

…ssions. It shall offer the public servants mentioned in the first paragraph a system of allowances, residence facilities and reimbursement of expenses that take account of the conditions under which t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Placement under house arrest with electronic surveillance

Article D32-14

The entry in a nominative register of the person placed under house arrest with electronic surveillance, as well as the fitting and removal of the device to be worn by the person assigned, shall be ca…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Ionising radiation.

Article R1337-12

…R. 1337-11 shall take an oath, before the judicial court in whose jurisdiction their administrative residence is located, to perform their duties faithfully and well, to observe in all respects the du…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 5: Transportation of the body after committal (R).

Article R2213-26

The body is placed in a hermetically sealed coffin meeting the conditions set out in Article R. 2213-27 in the following cases: 1° If the person was suffering at the time of death from one of the tran…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 10: Temporary non-medical accommodation for pregnant women

Article R6111-64

In order to be transported from her place of residence to the temporary non-medical accommodation mentioned in article R. 6111-55 or to the obstetrics and gynaecology unit where she is being cared for…

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