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Showing 191200 of 56775 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 22-1-1997 n° 80

French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Exceptional aid to offset fixed costs

Article 919-80

Exceptional aid is awarded for each cinema.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 15: General provisions.

Article L511-80

Legal public holidays are assimilated to days on which, under the laws in force, no payment may be demanded, nor any protest drawn up.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Judicial police

Article 809-2

In French Polynesia, the civil servants and agents mentioned in Article 35 of Organic Law No. 2004-192 of 27 February 2004 on the autonomous status of French Polynesia are deputy judicial police offic…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
General provisions

Article 802-3

Where at least one of the offences prosecuted falls within a category of offences for the trial of which the court has, pursuant to the provisions of this code, concurrent and specialised territorial…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
General provisions

Article 803-5

For the application of the right of a suspected or accused person, provided for by III of Preliminary Article, to an interpreter or a translation, the present article shall apply.If there is any doubt…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial measures to prevent recidivism in terrorism and rehabilitation

Article R50-80

The person concerned by the judicial measure for the prevention of terrorist recidivism and reintegration may at any time inform the sentence enforcement judge of the Paris judicial court of any chang…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Counting of postal votes

Article R2122-80

The counting of postal votes is processed automatically.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Provisions applicable to persons convicted of acts of terrorism

Article D49-80

For oral hearings before the Paris enforcement judge or court, the public prosecutor is represented by the public prosecutor of the Paris judicial court. These hearings shall take place at the Paris J…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sole subsection: Supplementary provisions

Article D3142-80

In the absence of the agreement referred to inArticle L. 3142-129, in companies with three hundred employees or more, the percentage of employees referred to inArticle L. 3142-127 is set at 2% of the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 2: Organisation and operation.

Article R822-80

The Articles of Association set the number of votes each partner has. A partner may give a written mandate to another partner to represent him at the meeting. The meeting may only validly deliberate i…

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