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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article R85

Records and copies of records relating to judicial decisions, as well as bulletins no. 1, are paid for out of the appropriations allocated to legal costs. Bulletins no. 1 of the criminal record are is…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title VIII: Plurality of parties.

Article 323

Where the claim is made by or against several co-plaintiffs, each of them shall exercise and bear as regards himself the rights and obligations of the parties to the proceedings.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title VIII: Plurality of parties.

Article 324

Acts performed by or against one of the co-interested parties shall neither benefit nor harm the others, subject to what is said in Articles 475, 529, 552, 553 and 615.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Financial provisions.

Article L5428-1

Subject to the provisions stipulating that they may not be assigned or seized, allowances, assistance and any other benefits paid by Pôle emploi may be assigned and seized under the same conditions an…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section VIII: Conciliation.

Article 21

It is part of the judge's mission to reconcile the parties.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
VIII: Litigation

Article 433 A

Infringements of the laws and regulations relating to the organisation of the wine market, the obligations laid down for wines leaving the estate and the measures taken to improve wine quality are rec…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section XXIII: Preventive archaeology tax

Article 235 ter ZG

…cedures as those laid down for the development tax in the first paragraph of article 1635 quater P. VIII -The preventive archaeology tax is calculated on the basis of the information required to estab…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Limitation period

Article L218-2

Action by professionals, in respect of goods or services they provide to consumers, shall be barred after two years.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Limitation period

Article L218-1

By way of derogation from Article 2254 of the Civil Code, the parties to a contract between a seller or supplier and a consumer may not, even by mutual agreement, alter the duration of the limitation…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VIII: European companies

Article L322-29

Where an insurance undertaking in the form of a société européenne registered in France intends to transfer its registered office outside France, it shall inform the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et…

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