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Showing 18511860 of 66453 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 19-9-2007 n° 06-15.295 and Cass. civ. 3-10-2019 n° 18-22.945 F-D

French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Conventional sequestration.

Article 1959

Sequestration may apply not only to household effects, but even to immovable property.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Conventional sequestration.

Article 1958

When it is free of charge, it is subject to the rules for filing proper, except for the differences set out below.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 3: Composition and operation of the artistic committee

Article R2172-19

…5° Two people qualified in the field of visual arts, one of whom is appointed by the project owner and the other by the ambassador.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Distribution and supply of labile blood products

Article R1221-19

…nded for direct therapeutic use in units known as blood depots. A blood depot is a unit that stores and dispenses, under the authority of a doctor or pharmacist, labile blood products intended exclusi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Registration of members of the professions of medical electroradiology manipulator and medical laboratory technician and of graduates not in practice

Article D4354-3

The Director of the Regional Health Agency and the Armed Forces Medical Corps shall send the Minister for Health and the body responsible for managing the register referred to in Article D. 4113-118 a…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Voluntary deposit.

Article 1925

Voluntary deposits may only take place between persons capable of contracting. Nevertheless, if a person capable of contracting accepts a deposit made by an incapable person, he is bound by all the ob…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Voluntary deposit.

Article 1924

Where the deposit being above the figure provided for in Article 1359 is not proved in writing, the person who is challenged as the depositary is believed to be the depositary on the basis of his decl…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Different types of sequestration.

Article 1955

Sequestration is either conventional or judicial.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5: Necessary deposit.

Article 1952

Innkeepers or hoteliers are liable, as custodians, for the clothing, luggage and miscellaneous items brought into their establishment by the traveller staying with them; the deposit of these kinds of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Voluntary deposit.

Article 1926

…deposit has only the action for revendication of the thing deposited, so long as it exists in the hand of the depositary, or an action for restitution to the extent of what has turned to the benefit…

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