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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Inheritance reserve and available share

Article 912

The hereditary reserve is that part of the estate's assets and rights which the law ensures devolve free of encumbrances to certain heirs known as reservataires, if they are called to the succession a…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Inheritance reserve and available share

Article 916

In the absence of a descendant and an undivorced surviving spouse, gifts by inter vivos deeds or wills may exhaust all assets.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Inheritance reserve and available share

Article 913

…the time of death, a national of a Member State of the European Union or habitually resident there and where the foreign law applicable to the succession does not allow any reservatory mechanism prot…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Inheritance reserve and available share

Article 917

…law makes a reservation, shall have the option, either to execute such disposition, or to make an abandonment of the ownership of the available portion.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Place of taxation

Article 10

…4 B are taxable at the place determined by joint order of the ministers responsible for the economy and the budget.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: General provisions

Article 1077

The claim may be based on only one of the cases provided for in the third to sixth paragraphs of Article 229 of the Civil Code. Any claim made in the alternative in any other case is inadmissible. Exc…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: General provisions

Article 1084

…d to rule on the exercise of parental authority, maintenance or the contribution to the maintenance and education of the child, the application shall be submitted, even if an appeal in cassation has b…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Experimentation

Article R5121-10

…icinal products, within the meaning of 9° of article L. 5121-20, means all chemical, pharmaceutical and biological tests, non-clinical tests and clinical trials. Without prejudice to the provisions of…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Voter information, election campaign and voting operations

Article LO1112-10

…ithin the deliberative assembly under the conditions laid down by this code;- the political parties and groupings to which at least 5% of the elected representatives of the deliberative assembly of th…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: General information

Article L721-10

The detailed rules for the application of this section shall be laid down by decree in the Council of State.

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