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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administration of community and private property.

Article 1428

Each spouse has administration and enjoyment of his or her own property and may dispose of it freely.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administration of community and private property.

Article 1439

The dowry constituted for the common child, in community property, is borne by the community. It must be borne half by each spouse, at the dissolution of the community, unless one of them, in constitu…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administration of community and private property.

Article 1434

Use or reinvestment is deemed to be made with regard to a spouse whenever, at the time of an acquisition, he has declared that it was made from his own funds or from the alienation of an own, and to t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administration of community and private property.

Article 1436

When the price and costs of the acquisition exceed the sum used or reused, the community is entitled to a reward for the excess. If, however, the community's contribution is greater than that of the a…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administration of community and private property.

Article 1425

The spouses may not, one without the other, lease a rural business or a building for commercial, industrial or craft use dependent on the community. Other leases on community property may be entered i…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Administration of community and private property.

Article 1437

Whenever a sum is taken from the community, either to pay debts or charges personal to one of the spouses, such as the price or part of the price of property belonging to him or her or the redemption…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Mutual assistance for the purposes of hearings, surveillance or infiltration

Article 694-7

With the prior agreement of the Minister of Justice to whom a request for mutual legal assistance has been made for this purpose, foreign police officers may pursue undercover operations on the territ…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Mutual assistance for the purposes of hearings, surveillance or infiltration

Article 694-9

When, in accordance with the stipulations of international conventions, the public prosecutor or investigating judge communicates information from ongoing criminal proceedings to foreign judicial auth…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Mutual assistance for the purposes of hearings, surveillance or infiltration

Article 694-6

When the surveillance provided for in Article 706-80 is to be prosecuted in a foreign State, it shall be authorised, under the conditions provided for by international conventions, by the public prose…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Mutual assistance for the purposes of hearings, surveillance or infiltration

Article 694-5

The provisions of Article 706-71 shall apply to the simultaneous execution, on the territory of the Republic and abroad, of requests for mutual assistance from foreign judicial authorities or acts of…

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