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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Prohibited activities, checks and investigations

Article L232-16

On the occasion of an international sports event, the French Anti-Doping Agency may: 1° At the request of the international sports organisation responsible for the event, carry out tests at the event…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Pension entitlement

Article 767

The estate of a predeceased spouse owes a pension to a needy spouse. The time limit for claiming it is one year from the death or the moment when the heirs cease to pay the benefits they previously pr…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Debts of the deceased

Article 774

By way of derogation from the provisions of 2° of Article 773, the existence and truthfulness of debts resulting from the application of articles L. 321-13 et seq. of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Co…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Sub-section 1: Method of registration of mortgages

Article 2422

Mortgage creditors cannot usefully take out a registration on the previous owner, from the publication of the transfer made to a third party. Registration has no effect between the creditors of an est…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-11

Where the insurance in the event of death has been taken out without the designation of a beneficiary, the guaranteed capital or annuity forms part of the policyholder's estate or succession.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 740

In the absence of an heir of the first three orders, the succession devolves to the collateral relatives of the deceased other than brothers and sisters and the descendants of the latter.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Powers of the curator.

Article 810-6

The curator's powers are exercised subject to the provisions applicable to the estate of a person who is the subject of safeguard, reorganisation or judicial liquidation proceedings.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Rendering of accounts and termination of guardianship.

Article 810-10

The net proceeds from the realisation of the remaining assets are consigned. The heirs, if any are presented within the period for claiming the estate, shall be entitled to exercise their right to suc…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Gifts made by marriage contract to the spouses and to unborn children of the marriage.

Article 1090

All gifts made to spouses by their marriage contract shall, when the donor's estate is opened, be reducible to the portion which the law allowed him to dispose of.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5: Universal legacies.

Article 1012

The legatee by universal title shall be liable, like the universal legatee, for the debts and charges of the testator's succession, personally for his share and portion, and hypothecarily for the whol…

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