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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Obligations of members and the company.

Article R*322-76

If, as a result of losses recorded in the accounting documents, the net assets fall below half the amount of the formation fund, the Board of Directors or the Management Board is required to call a Ge…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Verification and admission of claims.

Article L624-2

…the application for admission is admissible, decides on the admission or rejection of the claims or notes either that proceedings are in progress or that the dispute does not fall within his jurisdict…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Rights of the seller of furniture, claims and restitutions.

Article L624-17

The administrator with the agreement of the debtor, or failing that the debtor with the agreement of the mandataire judiciaire, may acquiesce in the application for revendication or restitution of an…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Employee inventions

Article R611-8

The time limits provided for in articles R. 611-5 to R. 611-7 are suspended by the commencement of litigation concerning the regularity of the declaration or the validity of the classification of the…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Requests concerning national defence

Article R612-30

…ed pursuant to Article L. 612-10 rules both on the merits and before the court by decisions that do not contain any analysis of the invention of such a nature as to lead to its disclosure. Only the pu…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter III: Jurisdiction of the protection litigation judge

Article R713-9

…action delivered or addressed to the registry of the judicial court by any interested party who has not been put in a position to oppose the application.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Common provisions.

Article 1013

In addition to the cases in which the Chamber rules in restricted formation, the President may, in particular when the complexity of the case justifies it, appoint two rapporteurs from among the counc…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section VII: Common provisions.

Article 1379

Claims made pursuant to articles 784,790,809-1,810-8,812-1-1,813,813-4,814-1,837,841-1and 1031 of the Civil Code shall be brought before the president of the judicial court, who shall rule in the mann…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IV: Injunction to do.

Article 1425-8

…claim and all incidental claims and defences on the merits. In the event of a decision that it does not have jurisdiction, the case shall be referred to the competent court in accordance with the rule…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Procedure.

Article R145-23

Disputes relating to the fixing of the price of the revised or renewed lease are brought, regardless of the amount of the rent, before the president of the judicial court or the judge who replaces him…

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