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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Bearer bonds and stipulations for third parties

Article 1207

…r the expiry of a period of three months from the day on which they gave the beneficiary formal notice to accept it. If it is not accompanied by the designation of a new beneficiary, the revocation be…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Bearer bonds and stipulations for third parties

Article 1204

An obligation may be incurred by promising the act of a third party. The promisor is released from any obligation if the third party performs the promised act. If he does not, he may be ordered to pay…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Bearer bonds and stipulations for third parties

Article 1205

…he contracting parties, the stipulator, can make the other, the promisor, promise to perform a service for the benefit of a third party, the beneficiary. The latter may be a future person but must be…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Bearer bonds and stipulations for third parties

Article 1206

…Nevertheless the stipulator may freely revoke the stipulation as long as the beneficiary has not accepted it. The stipulation becomes irrevocable when acceptance reaches the stipulator or the promiso…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Rendering of accounts and liquidation of profits.

Article 1268

…shall be brought, as the case may be, before the court within whose jurisdiction the accounting officer resides or, if the accounting officer has been appointed by a court of law, before the judge who…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Rendering of accounts and liquidation of profits.

Article 1269

No application for the revision of an account shall be admissible, unless it is made with a view to recovery in the event of error, omission or misrepresentation.The same rule shall apply to the liqui…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Live working.

Article R4534-122

When earthworks, excavations, drillings or recesses are to be carried out in the vicinity of underground electrical conduits of any class, the route of the conduits and the location of the installatio…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Live working.

Article R4534-123

When earthmoving, transport, lifting or handling equipment must be used or moved in the vicinity of an electricity line, installation or pipeline of any class, and the operator, for a reason he consid…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Live working.

Article R4534-120

…to wear insulating gloves made available to them by the employer, as well as long-sleeved clothing and a cap. These measures do not preclude measures to insulate workers from the ground.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Live working.

Article R4534-121

…f reach by placing effective, firmly fixed obstacles in front of the bare live conductors or parts, and in front of the neutral. If this measure cannot be envisaged, the work area must be delimited in…

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