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French General Tax CodeIn force
3°: Offices (Transfers, creations and deletions)

Article 859

Any treaty or agreement the object of which is the transfer for valuable consideration or free of charge of an office, the clientele, minutes, repertoires, collections and other objects dependent ther…

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2°: Declaration of previous formalities

Article 857

Whenever a judgment is rendered on a registered document, the judgment or award shall mention this and state the amount of duty paid, the date of payment and the name of the public service where it wa…

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1°: Public acts

Article 854

It is forbidden for any notary or court clerk to receive any deed in deposit without drawing up a record of the deposit. Wills deposited with notaries by testators are excepted.

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2°: Consequential acts

Article 862

Notaries, bailiffs, registrars and other public officers, lawyers and administrative authorities may not make or draw up a deed by virtue of or as a consequence of a deed compulsorily subject to regis…

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1°: Public acts

Article 855

A mention shall be made in all copies of public, civil or judicial acts, which must be registered on the minutes and copies referred to in I of l'article 658, of the receipt of duties, by a literal an…

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5°: Bailiffs

Article 866

With the exception of deeds in criminal matters and deeds from lawyer to lawyer, bailiffs are required to draw up their deeds and minutes in two originals; one, exempt from all tax formalities, is giv…

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6°: Directory of notaries, bailiffs, court clerks, secretaries, auctioneers, commercial brokers, insurance brokers and other intermediaries

Article 868

…in a register, listed and initialled under the conditions provided for in the second paragraph of III of Article 867, columnar directories in which they shall enter, day by day, without blanks or sp…

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2°: Public sales of furniture

Article 871

Moveables, effects, merchandise, wood, fruit, crops and all other movable objects may only be sold publicly and by auction, in the presence and through the ministry of public officers with authority t…

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3°: Justification for entitlement to exemption

Article 877

The granting of an exemption from land registration tax, when it is correlative to an exemption from registration fees, is subject either to the production of a certificate issued by the public accoun…

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4°: Statements of expenses. Indication of the amount of duties paid to the Treasury

Article 865

Statements of costs drawn up by lawyers, bailiffs, court clerks, notaries commissioned must show separately, in a special column and for each disbursement, the amount of duties of any kind paid to the…

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