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Showing 431440 of 39346 articles for Art. s. L. 145-15 & L. 145-47–55

French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: The parties.

Article 552

…dged by one of them retains the right of appeal of the others, unless the latter join the proceedings. In the same cases, an appeal against one of the parties reserves to the appellant the right to ca…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: The parties.

Article 555

These same persons may be called before the court, even for the purposes of conviction, when the progress of the dispute involves their being implicated.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: The parties.

Article 558

…enforceable judgment.Waiver is not effective if, subsequently, another party itself regularly appeals.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: The parties.

Article 556

Persons capable of compromising may waive the appeal. They may do so only in respect of rights of which they have free disposal.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Declarations of birth.

Article 55

…il registrar is located. A Conseil d'Etat decree determines the communes where this paragraph applies. Where a birth has not been declared within the legal time limit, the civil registrar may only rec…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 559

If a watercourse, whether state-owned or not, removes by a sudden force a considerable and recognisable part of a riparian field, and carries it to a lower field or to the opposite bank, the owner of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 555

Where the plantations, constructions and works have been made by a third party and with materials belonging to the latter, the owner of the land has the right, subject to the provisions of paragraph 4…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Right of accession to what is produced by the thing

Article 550

…possesses as owner, by virtue of a title transferring ownership of which he is unaware of the defects. He ceases to be in good faith from the moment these defects become known to him.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 558

…the pond acquires no right to the riparian land that its water comes to cover in extraordinary floods.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 554

The owner of the land who has made constructions, plantations and works with materials that did not belong to him must pay the estimated value at the date of payment; he may also be ordered to pay dam…

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