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Showing 221230 of 31508 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 19-5-1999 n° 97-18.057

French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 197

I. - As regards the taxpayers referred to in Article 4 B, the following rules shall be applied to calculate income tax:1. The tax is calculated by applying to the fraction of each share of income that…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 5: Termination of detention in the waiting area

Article L342-19

If detention in the waiting area is not extended by the end of the period set by the last detention decision, the foreign national is authorised to enter France on a regularisation visa for a period o…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Employee with a fixed-term employment contract.

Article L1226-19

Periods during which the employment contract is suspended as a result of an accident at work or occupational illness do not prevent the fixed-term employment contract from expiring.However, where the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Regime for members of a regulated market

Article L421-19

Market undertakings may not limit the number of members admitted to the regulated market they manage.The AMF shall ensure that market undertakings adapt their technical capacity, as necessary, to the…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Application to the armed forces health service.

Article R5222-19

For the purposes of this chapter, army hospitals and the army blood transfusion centre are considered, respectively, as public health establishments and as a blood transfusion establishment. The local…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter III: Personal appearance of the parties.

Article 198

The judge may draw any legal conclusions from the declarations of the parties, or from the absence or refusal of one of them to reply, and may refer to them as equivalent to a prima facie case in writ…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter III: Personal appearance of the parties.

Article 190

The parties may be questioned in the presence of a technician and confronted with witnesses.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter III: Personal appearance of the parties.

Article 193

The judge shall, if he considers it necessary, ask the questions submitted to him by the parties after the examination.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Declarations by third parties.

Article 199

Where testimonial evidence is admissible, the judge may receive from third parties statements of such a nature as to throw light on the disputed facts of which they have personal knowledge. These stat…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter III: Personal appearance of the parties.

Article 194

Minutes shall be taken of the parties' statements, their absence or their refusal to reply. The drawing up of the minutes may, however, be replaced by a mention in the judgment if the case is immediat…

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