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Showing 861870 of 42563 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 18-3-1992 n° 502

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: People's savings plan

Article L221-18

The people's savings plan entitles the holder, in return for payments into an account opened with or under a life insurance contract taken out with bodies governed by the Insurance Code or the Mutual…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Special provisions for securitisation funds

Article L214-186

The Management Company shall liquidate the Fund or one of its sub-funds in accordance with the conditions set out in the Fund Regulations.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Holders

Article L224-18

The transfer of individual rights from a collective company pension savings plan to another pension savings plan before leaving the company is only possible up to a limit of one transfer every three y…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Implementing provisions.

Article L1234-18

A decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the application of articles L. 1234-1 to L. 1234-14.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Mobility leave

Article L1237-18

Mobility leave may be offered by the employer either as part of an agreement on the collective termination of employment concluded under the conditions set out in articles L. 1237-19 to L. 1237-19-8,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Groups of employers not falling within the scope of the same collective agreement.

Article L1253-18

Subject to the specific provisions applicable to the employers' groups mentioned in Article L. 1253-17, the provisions of Section 1 apply to employers' groups that do not fall within the scope of the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Specific provisions applicable to clinical investigations of devices referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017

Article L1125-18

At the time of giving informed consent, the investigator may ask the person undergoing clinical investigation to agree to his/her data being used in subsequent research for scientific purposes only. T…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 4: Compensation for victims

Article L1142-18

Where the Commission considers that a medical accident is only partly the consequence of preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic acts for which a healthcare professional or institution is liable, it wil…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section II: Obligations of the insurer and the insured.

Article L172-18

The insurer is not liable for :a) damage to or loss of property resulting from the inherent vice of the insured object, except as provided for in article L. 173-4 with regard to latent defects in the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Life insurance with variable capital on real estate.

Article L160-18

When a company referred to in article L. 160-10 or a société civile de placement immobilier (non-trading real estate investment company) adopts the system for variable-capital real estate investment c…

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