French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Respective rights and duties of spouses
Article 212
The spouses owe each other mutual respect, fidelity, help, assistance.
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The spouses owe each other mutual respect, fidelity, help, assistance.
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The spouses together ensure the moral and material direction of the family. They provide for the education of the children and prepare for their future.
The investigating chamber shall rule in a single judgment on all the facts between which there is a connection.
The committal order shall contain, on pain of nullity, the statement and legal classification of the facts, which are the subject of the charge, and shall specify the identity of the accused. It also…
It examines whether there are sufficient charges against the person under investigation.
The provisions of articles 171,172 and of the last paragraph of Article 174 shall apply to this chapter. The regularity of the judgments of the investigating chambers and the regularity of the previou…
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Decrees issued by the Director General of Customs and Indirect Taxation set out the terms and conditions for the application of the open livestock account system.
The provisions of this article apply to capital gains, other than those referred to in the second paragraph of II of article 238 octies, realised before the entry into force, under conditions set by d…
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