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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Optional taxes

Article 1530

…the conditions provided for in I of Article 1639 A bis, institute an annual tax on commercial wasteland located on their territory. However, public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with t…

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

Article 143

Marriage is contracted by two persons of different or the same sex.

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

Article 146

There is no marriage where there is no consent.

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

Article 149

…eath certificate of the father or mother of one of the future spouses when the spouse or the father and mother of the deceased attest to this death under oath. If the current residence of the father o…

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

Article 144

Marriage may not be contracted before the age of eighteen.

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

Article 145

Nevertheless, the public prosecutor of the place where the marriage is celebrated may grant age waivers for serious reasons.

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

Article 148

Minors may not enter into marriage without the consent of their father and mother; in the event of dissension between the father and mother, this division takes precedence.

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

Article 147

A second marriage may not be contracted until the first has been dissolved.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1448

…e who has obtained separation as to property must contribute, in proportion to his or her faculties and those of his or her spouse, both to the expenses of the household and to those of the education…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Causes of dissolution and separation as to property.

Article 1445

The application and the judgment of separation of property must be published under the conditions and under the sanctions provided for by the Code of Civil Procedure. The judgment pronouncing separati…

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