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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Authorities whose purpose is to combat excessive prices for essential foodstuffs

Article L2221-18

The internal regulations provide for the administrative organisation of the public service authority. It sets out the role and powers of the director. It determines the financial system, the accountin…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Halls, markets and public weights

Article L2224-18

The town council's decisions concerning the creation, transfer or abolition of municipal market halls or markets are taken after consultation with the professional organisations concerned, which have…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Undivided usufruct.

Article 815-18

The provisions of articles 815 to 815-17 are applicable to undivided interests in usufruct insofar as they are compatible with the rules of usufruct. The notifications provided for by articles 815-14,…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Collective decisions.

Article 1854-1

In the case of a merger of non-trading companies, if the Articles of Association provide for consultation of the shareholders of the acquiring company, such consultation is not required if, from the f…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1843-2

The rights of each shareholder in the share capital are proportional to his contributions when the company is formed or during its existence. Industrial contributions do not contribute to the formatio…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title VIII bis: Property development contracts

Article 1831-3

If, prior to completion of the programme, the project owner assigns the rights it has in the programme, the assignee is substituted ipso jure, actively and passively, for it in the entire contract. Th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1832-2

A spouse may not, under the penalty provided for in article 1427, use joint property to make a contribution to a company or acquire non-negotiable company shares without his or her spouse having been…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1843-4

I. - In cases where the law refers to this article to determine the price conditions for a transfer of a shareholder's corporate rights, or the repurchase of such rights by the company, the value of s…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1844-1

The share of each partner in the profits and his contribution to the losses shall be determined in proportion to his share in the share capital and the share of the partner who has contributed only hi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Management.

Article 1846-1

Except in the cases referred to in article 1844-7, the company comes to an end by early dissolution, which may be ordered by the court at the request of any interested party, where it has been without…

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