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

Article 221

To this end, a statement of all pending cases shall be drawn up in each investigating office every six months, mentioning, for each case, the date of the last investigative act carried out. Cases invo…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special export provisions

Article 22

1. Decrees may temporarily and in cases of emergency permit or suspend the export of products of the soil and of national industry. 2. These acts must be presented, in the form of bills, to the Nation…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Calculation of tax

Article 220

1. a) Upon justification, the withholding tax to which the income from transferable securities, referred to in the articles 108 to 119,238 septies Band 1678 bis, received by the company or legal perso…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VII: Obligations of legal persons

Article 223

1. Legal entities and associations liable to corporation tax are required to file the declarations provided for the basis of assessment of income tax in respect of industrial and commercial profits (r…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VI: Assessment of tax

Article 221

1 Corporation tax is assessed under the same conditions and subject to the same penalties as income tax (industrial and commercial profits, tax regime based on actual profits or based on the simplifie…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VII: Obligations of legal persons

Article 222

The companies, firms and associations referred to in Article 206 are required to make declarations of existence, of changes to the corporate pact and to the conditions under which the profession is pr…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The general time limit and its starting point.

Article 2224

Personal or movable actions shall be barred after five years from the day on which the holder of a right knew or should have known of the facts enabling him to exercise it.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Grounds for postponing the starting point or suspending the limitation period.

Article 2233

Prescription does not run:1° In respect of a claim which depends on a condition, until the condition arrives;2° In respect of an action in warranty, until the eviction takes place;3° In respect of a c…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Contractual limitation periods.

Article 2254

The duration of prescription may be shortened or extended by agreement of the parties. It may not, however, be reduced to less than one year or extended to more than ten years.The parties may also, by…

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

Article 2270

One cannot prescribe against one's title, in the sense that one cannot change to oneself the cause and principle of one's possession.

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