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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Penalties involving deprivation of rights.

Article 432 ter

Any foreigner guilty of the offence referred to in article 414 of this Code involving manufactured tobacco products or narcotics may be banned from French territory for up to ten years, under the cond…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Penalties involving deprivation of rights.

Article 433

…l as of any duty credit. 2. Any person who lends his name in order to evade the effects of these provisions on those affected will incur the same penalties.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Penalties involving deprivation of rights.

Article 432

1 In addition to the penalties provided for in this Code, anyone found guilty of having participated as an interested party in any way whatsoever in a smuggling offence or an offence of importing or e…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Display and distribution of decisions

Article 433 bis

For the offence provided for in Article 459(1a), the court shall order that the sentence be displayed and disseminated under the conditions provided for in Articles 131-35 or 131-39 of the Criminal Co…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title VI: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article L463-1

The provisions of the article mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands and the French Southern and Antarctic Territories, in the wording indica…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title VI: OVERSEAS PROVISIONS

Article L461-1

For the application of article L. 412-6 in Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the words: "in Article 38 of EU Regulation No 1379/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 De…

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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
Chapter I: The nature and form of the sale.

Article 1585

Where goods are not sold en bloc, but by weight, count or measure, the sale is not perfected, in the sense that the things sold are at the seller's risk until they are weighed, counted or measured; bu…

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

Article 1589

…consent by both parties to the property and the price. If this promise applies to land already subdivided or to be subdivided, its acceptance and the resulting agreement will be established by the pay…

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

Article 1582

A sale is an agreement by which one party undertakes to deliver a thing, and the other to pay for it. It may be made by deed or by private agreement.

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