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Showing 151160 of 3358 articles for Art. 20 févr. 2001

French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Common provisions

Article 20-1

A child's parentage only has an effect on the child's nationality if it is established during the child's minority.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV bis: Conflict of laws rules

Article 202-1

The qualities and conditions required to be able to contract marriage are governed, for each of the spouses, by their personal law. Whatever the applicable personal law, marriage requires the consent…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV bis: Conflict of laws rules

Article 202-2

The marriage is validly celebrated if it was celebrated in accordance with the formalities laid down by the law of the State in whose territory the celebration took place.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-20

Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years on the date of the incident and whose articles of association aim to defend the moral and material interests of tenants, owners an…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Judicial police officers

Article 20-1

When they do not have the status of judicial police officer pursuant to article 16-1 A, active or retired national police officers and national gendarmerie military personnel who had the status of jud…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 207-1

…ith the case, or raise the matter and proceed in accordance with the conditions set out in articles 201,202 and 204, or refer the case file to the same investigating judge or to such other one, in ord…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-20

In order to facilitate the gathering of evidence of offences and the identification of their perpetrators, the services of the national police and the national gendarmerie entrusted with a judicial po…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle II: The departmental criminal court

Article 380-20

If the departmental criminal court considers, during or after the hearings, that the facts before it constitute a crime punishable by thirty years' imprisonment or life imprisonment, it refers the cas…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Section 3: Delegated federations

Article L131-20

When the Minister responsible for Sports refers to the administrative court the acts taken by virtue of the delegation mentioned in article L. 131-14 which he considers to be contrary to the law, he m…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Chapter II: Professional sport

Article L222-20

The practice of the activity defined in Article L. 222-7 is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of €30,000 : 1° Without having obtained a sports agent's licence or in disregard of a decis…

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