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Showing 21–30 of 59430 articles for “Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 5-1-2023”
The police and gendarmerie units may, in accordance with the procedures set out in articles 56 to 58 and during the hours set out in Article 59, and after obtaining the agreement of the examining magi…
If all the property or rights left by the disposant on the day of his death have not been included in the partition, those of his property or rights which have not been included therein shall be allot…
A debtor who has taken unreserved note of the assignment of the claim may not set up against the assignee the set-off that he could have set up against the assignor.
The debtor of an obligation to deliver a certain body is discharged by its delivery to the creditor in the same condition, unless he proves, in the case of deterioration, that the deterioration is not…
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Subject to the provisions of this sub-section, the provisions of Title XXI of Book I of the Code of Civil Procedure apply to the electronic communication of procedural documents made possible by the e…
In view of the request made pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 529-2, of the protest lodged pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 529-5, of that provided for by III of Article 529-6 or th…
When the civil registrar of the place of birth of a child mentions the recognition of the said child in the margin of the child's birth certificate, he shall notify the other parent by registered lett…
Before the suspensive condition is fulfilled, the debtor must refrain from any act that would prevent the proper performance of the obligation; the creditor may perform any conservatory act and attack…
The natural person who carries out the mediation measure must satisfy the following conditions:
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