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Showing 201210 of 37434 articles for Art. n° 22-18436 · Cass. com. 24 May 2011

French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Formation and scope of the bond

Article 2292

A surety bond may guarantee one or more present or future, definite or determinable obligations.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 2291

A person may act as surety for the creditor on behalf of the person who guaranteed the principal debtor.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Invocation of the limitation period.

Article 2248

Unless waived, the statute of limitations may be asserted in any case, even before the Court of Appeal.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Respective rights and duties of spouses

Article 220

Each of the spouses has the power to enter alone into contracts which have as their object the maintenance of the household or the education of the children: any debt thus contracted by one obliges th…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: General provisions.

Article 221

The judge shall authorize the witness, at his request, to receive any compensation to which he may be entitled.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Specific powers of the President of the Investigating Chamber

Article 223

He may refer the matter to the Investigating Chamber for a ruling on the continued detention of an accused person in pre-trial detention..

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions of acquisitive prescription.

Article 2267

…f those who held the property or the right to any of the titles designated by the preceding article may not prescribe either.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Causes of interruption of prescription.

Article 2245

The interpellation made to one of the joint and several debtors by an application to court or by an act of forced execution or the acknowledgement by the debtor of the right of the one against whom he…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Supervision of the activities of officers and agents of the judicial police

Article 225

The matter is referred to it either by the public prosecutor or by its chairman.It may be referred to it of its own motion when examining the proceedings referred to it.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Respective rights and duties of spouses

Article 223

Each spouse may freely exercise a profession, receive his or her earnings and wages and dispose of them after paying the marriage expenses.

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