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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R5145-1

The Director of the National Veterinary Medicines Agency is appointed by order of the Ministers for Agriculture and Health, on a proposal from the Director General of the National Agency for Food, Env…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article L313-30

A credit institution or finance company that assigns or pledges business receivables under the conditions set out in article L. 313-23 may, at any time, issue securities intended for the use of all or…

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 738-2

Where the father and mother or one of them survives the deceased and the latter has no posterity, they may in all cases exercise a right of reversion, up to the proportional shares fixed in the first…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Warranty of defects in the goods sold.

Article 1646-1

The seller of a building to be constructed is bound, as from acceptance of the work, by the obligations to which architects, contractors and other persons bound to the client by a contract for the hir…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Bailiffs

Article R444-56

Any sum handed over in payment to a bailiff by a debtor to settle a claim must be repaid by the bailiff to the creditor within a maximum period of three weeks if the payment is made in cash, six weeks…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 3: Qualifications required

Article A321-9

Admission is pronounced by the jury if the average of the marks obtained by the candidate is equal to or higher than 10 out of 20. At the end of the tests, the jury draws up the list of candidates dec…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Joint ownership of acquests.

Article 1570

The original patrimony includes the property that belonged to the spouse on the day of the marriage and that which he or she has acquired since by succession or gift, as well as all property which, un…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 7: Withdrawal or death of a partner.

Article 1870

The company is not dissolved by the death of a partner, but continues with his heirs or legatees, unless provision is made in the Articles of Association that they must be approved by the partners. It…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions required for the validity of the contract.

Article 1973

It may be constituted for the benefit of a third party, although the price is provided by another person. In the latter case, although it has the characteristics of a liberality, it is not subject to…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General conditions

Article D6124-123

The protected interventional unit has : 1° At least two protected intervention rooms dedicated to cardiac surgery, of a size compatible with the level of equipment and operating conditions required, e…

AI translation · Updated 31 Oct 2023Open Article
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