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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 738

Where the father and mother survive and the deceased has no descendants but brothers and sisters or their descendants, one quarter of the estate devolves to each of the father and mother and the remai…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 735

Children or their descendants succeed to their father and mother or other ascendants, without distinction as to sex or primogeniture, even if they come from different unions.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 738-2

Where the father and mother or one of them survives the deceased and the latter has no posterity, they may in all cases exercise a right of reversion, up to the proportional shares fixed in the first…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Production

Article 416

The designation of "vin doux naturel" is reserved for wines whose production is traditional and customary:Vinified directly by the harvesting producers and made exclusively from their harvests of musc…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Stills

Article 308

Any holder of apparatus or portions of apparatus suitable for the distillation, manufacture or ironing of eaux-de-vie or spirits, is required to make a declaration to the administration, within five d…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
V: Travelling distillers

Article 327

Any still used by an itinerant hirer may not be put into circulation or parked on the public highway, in an unenclosed courtyard or on an unenclosed site not belonging to the owner of the apparatus, w…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Stills

Article 310

The provisions concerning stills apply to any other apparatus that may be used for the manufacture or pressing of eaux-de-vie or spirits.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Declarations

Article 407

The harvest, production and stock declarations provided for in the European regulations adopted for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
V: Travelling distillers

Article 328

The circulation permit is valid for a maximum of one month and for the communes included in the district of the post from which it originates. In the event of a move to another district, it may be exc…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Production

Article 417 bis

For tax purposes, the sweet natural wines referred to in article 416, liqueur wines with a protected designation of origin, whose production is traditional and customary and which, subject to being su…

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