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Showing 981990 of 68975 articles for Art. s. L 123-16 and L 123-16-1 · Art. D 230-1

French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Qualities and conditions required to enter into marriage

Article 161

In the direct line, marriage is prohibited between all ascendants and descendants and relatives in the same line.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Qualities and conditions required to enter into marriage

Article 163

Marriage is prohibited between the uncle and the niece or nephew, and between the aunt and the nephew or niece.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Qualities and conditions required to enter into marriage

Article 164

However, the President of the Republic may, for serious reasons, lift the prohibitions laid down: 1° By Article 161 to marriages between relatives in the direct line where the person who created the a…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Qualities and conditions required to enter into marriage

Article 162

In collateral lines, marriage is prohibited, between brother and sister, between brothers and between sisters.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Qualities and conditions required to enter into marriage

Article 160

If the current residence of those of the ascendants of the minor of eighteen years of age whose death has not been established is unknown and if these ascendants have not given any news of them for on…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
IV : Provisions applicable to import taxes, petroleum products and removal from warehouses

Article 1695

I. - Value added tax is declared and collected when it becomes due, for the following transactions:1° Imports for which the person liable is a non-taxable person not identified in accordance with the…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
6: Payroll tax

Article 1679

The sums owed by employers in respect of the payroll tax referred to in article 231 must be remitted to the competent public accountant under the conditions and within the time limits that are set by…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transfer of certain intangible rights, successive rights and rights in dispute

Article 1691

If, before the assignor or assignee had served the conveyance on the debtor, the latter had paid the assignor, he shall be validly discharged.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transfer of certain intangible rights, successive rights and rights in dispute

Article 1698

The purchaser, for his part, must reimburse the seller for what the latter has paid for the debts and charges of the estate, and make good to him all that he was credited with, if there is no stipulat…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transfer of certain intangible rights, successive rights and rights in dispute

Article 1699

The person against whom a disputed right has been assigned may be held harmless for it by the assignee, by reimbursing him for the actual price of the assignment together with expenses and fair costs,…

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