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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Capacity to dispose of or receive by gift inter vivos or by will.

Article 911

Any gift to a natural or legal person who is incapable of receiving free of charge is null and void, whether it is disguised in the form of an onerous contract or made in the name of interposed natura…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Capacity to dispose of or receive by gift inter vivos or by will.

Article 904

A minor who has reached the age of sixteen and is not emancipated may dispose only by will, and only up to the amount of half of the property which the law allows an adult to dispose of. However, if h…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Capacity to dispose of or receive by gift inter vivos or by will.

Article 907

A minor, although he has reached the age of sixteen years, shall not, even by will, dispose for the benefit of his guardian. A minor, who has reached the age of majority or has become emancipated, sha…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Capacity to dispose of or receive by gift inter vivos or by will.

Article 901

To make a liberality, one must be of sound mind. A liberality is void where consent has been vitiated by error, fraud or violence.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book VI: Overseas provisions

Article 936

The adversarial hearings held pursuant to article 396 by the liberty and custody judge of the judicial court of Basse-Terre for defendants in the community of Saint-Martin may be carried out by means…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book VI: Overseas provisions

Article 935

For the application of the present code to Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin: 1° The words: "the department" are replaced by the words: "the local authority"; 2° In the absence of adaptations provided…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book VI: Overseas provisions

Article 937

Persons remanded in custody until their appearance before the court may be held in a premises other than a prison until the third working day following the order prescribing detention at the latest. F…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 8: Advertising.

Article D5141-88-1

I.-The amount of the tax provided for in 5° of 1 of I of article L. 5141-8 is set at : a) €2,000 per request for prior authorisation for advertising relating to a medicinal product and comprising up t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 837

For the application of Article 398-1 in French Polynesia, New Caledonia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands: 1° The 2° is worded as follows: "2° The offences provided for by the locally applicable provi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Annexes Part A Book VIII

Article Annexe 8-1

REGULATION SETTING THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO THE ELECTIONS OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATORS TO THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE REGISTRATION AND DISCIPLINE OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATORS AND JUDICIA…

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