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Showing 861870 of 44723 articles for Art. Cass. 1ère civ. 8-3-1988 n° 86-11.144

French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 894

An inter vivos gift is an act by which the donor currently and irrevocably disposes of the thing given in favour of the donee who accepts it.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Estates which have lapsed.

Article 811

Where the State claims the estate of a person who dies without an heir or an abandoned estate, it must apply to the court for the estate to be sent into possession.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Agents appointed by agreement.

Article 813

The heirs may, by mutual agreement, entrust the administration of the estate to one of them or to a third party. The mandate is governed by articles 1984 to 2010. When at least one heir has accepted t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Applications for partition.

Article 816

Partition may be requested, even when one of the undivided co-owners has enjoyed all or part of the undivided property separately, if there has been no deed of partition or sufficient possession to ac…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Reporting of gifts.

Article 853

The same applies to any profits that the heir may have derived from agreements made with the deceased, if these agreements did not present any indirect advantage, when they were made.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Effects of partition and guarantee of lots

Article 883

Each co-heir is deemed to have succeeded alone and immediately to all the effects included in his or her lot, or to have fallen to him or her on licitation, and never to have had ownership of the othe…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
B: Provisions specific to certain agreements

Article 816

Deeds recording merger transactions in which only legal entities or bodies liable to corporation tax participate, and the assumption of liabilities attached to the contributions mentioned in these dee…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
X: Registration of liens and mortgages

Article 844

The proportional land registration tax applicable to registrations of judicial or conventional mortgages referred to in 1° of Article

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French General Tax CodeIn force
A: Obligations of taxpayers

Article 850

In any deed or declaration for the purpose of either a sale of immovable property, or a transfer of a business or the right to a lease or the benefit of a promise to lease relating to all or part of a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
E: Miscellaneous obligations

Article 801

The declaration provided for in Article 800 must mention the surname, first names, date and place of birth of each of the heirs, legatees or donees. If the birth took place outside France, proof of th…

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