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Showing 4150 of 4768 articles for Art. 15 févr. 2012

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 157

Experts are chosen from natural or legal persons who appear on the national list drawn up by the Cour de cassation or on one of the lists drawn up by the Courts of Appeal under the conditions provided…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 158

The mission of the experts, which can only be to examine technical issues, is specified in the decision ordering the expertise.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 4: Compensation for detention

Article 150

The compensation awarded pursuant to this sub-section shall be borne by the State, except for recourse by the latter against the informer in bad faith or the false witness whose fault caused the deten…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 6: Provisions applicable to all bonded warehouses.

Article 157

1. When a new customs-approved treatment or use has not been given by the warehouse keeper at the end of the period for the goods to remain in the warehouse set by the administration or by the Communi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Taxable income

Article 158

…nce contracts or the schemes and plans mentioned in the second and third paragraphs of I of Article 154 bis and the first and second paragraphs of I of Article 154 bis-0 A, when the option provided fo…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Joint ownership of acquests.

Article 1577

…ubsidiarily, starting with the most recent alienations, against the property referred to in Article 1573 which had been alienated by gift inter vivos or in fraud of the spouse's rights.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Joint ownership of acquests.

Article 1575

If a spouse's final assets are less than his or her original assets, the shortfall is borne entirely by that spouse. If it is greater, the increase represents the net acquests and gives rise to partic…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: The nature and form of the sale.

Article 1590

If the promise to sell was made with deposits each of the contracting parties is master to dispose of them, He who gave them, by losing them, And he who received them, by returning double.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5 : Stipulation of unequal shares.

Article 1520

The spouses may derogate from the equal division established by law.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Provisions common to both parts of Chapter II.

Article 1527

The advantages that either spouse may derive from the clauses of a community agreement, as well as those that may result from the commingling of movables or debts, are not regarded as gifts. However,…

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