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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Judicial representatives

Article R812-23-2

…delay to carry out the legal mandates entrusted to the prevented professional as well as the acts necessary for the management of these mandates. The administrator is chosen, as the case may be, from…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Right to training

Article R7125-25-2

…27-12-1 of this code and article L. 121-37-1 of the New Caledonian Local Authorities Code may not exceed the amount set by the decree mentioned in 2° of article R. 1621-7 of this code.When they do not…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Right to training

Article R7227-25-2

…27-12-1 of this code and article L. 121-37-1 of the New Caledonian Local Authorities Code may not exceed the amount set by the decree mentioned in 2° of article R. 1621-7 of this code.When they do not…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Assignment of sums of money as security

Article 2374-2

The assignment is enforceable against third parties by delivery of the amount assigned.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Qualifications for jury service

Article 258-2

Only persons who have not served as a juror or citizen assessor in the five years preceding the current year and who have not been entered on an annual jury list or an annual list of citizen assessors…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Endowments, grants and miscellaneous funds

Article D. 2335-23

I.-The fixed portion provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 2335-16 amounts to €9,000. The variable portion provided for in the same paragraph is allocated according to the following scale…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXa: Directory of personal data collected in the context of legal proceedings, known as "Redex".

Article R53-21-23

No interconnection, matching or linking within the meaning of the loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés ne peuvent être effectués entre le fichier prév…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: Common provisions

Article L5842-2

…7 August 2015L. 5211-4-2law no. 2022-217 of 21 February 2022 L. 5211-4-3 law no. 2010-1563 of 16 December 2010II.-For the application of article L. 5211-3: For the application of article L. 5211-3: I…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Patent rights

Article L613-23-2

…stitut national de la propriété industrielle shall decide on the opposition after an adversarial procedure including an examination phase, under the conditions defined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Litigation concerning the invalidity and revocation of trademarks

Article L716-2-2

The invalidity decision has absolute effect. Where the grounds for invalidity affect the registration of a trade mark only in part, only a partial invalidity shall be granted.

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