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Showing 27512760 of 49658 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 27-2-1991 n° 410

French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter III: Miscellaneous taxes

Article 232

I. - The annual tax on vacant accommodation is applicable:1° In communes belonging to a continuous urbanisation zone of more than fifty thousand inhabitants where there is a marked imbalance between t…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-section I: The decision ordering the expert assessment.

Article 265

The decision ordering the expert opinion: Explains the circumstances that make the expert opinion necessary and, if applicable, the appointment of several experts or the appointment as expert of a per…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 7: Care of prisoners

Article R6111-28

When the public health establishment does not have a psychiatric department and the prison is not served by a regional medical-psychological service mentioned in article R. 3221-6, the Director Genera…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title XIV: Trusts

Article 2018

The trust contract determines, on pain of nullity: 1° The assets, rights or securities transferred. If they are future, they must be determinable; 2° The duration of the transfer, which may not exceed…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Income tax

Article 200

1. Open the right to an income tax reduction equal to 66% of their amount the sums taken within the limit of 20% of taxable income which correspond to donations and payments, including the express aba…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Respective rights and duties of spouses

Article 220

Each of the spouses has the power to enter alone into contracts which have as their object the maintenance of the household or the education of the children: any debt thus contracted by one obliges th…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions common to consumer credit and home loans

Article D314-28

The content of the training may be adapted where the persons concerned can provide their employer with evidence of having obtained a national diploma covering the knowledge, diligence and approaches p…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
XVI: Leasing transactions

Article 239 sexies

I. - When the purchase price paid by the lessee for the property leased under a finance lease entered into with a société immobilière pour le commerce et l'industrie is less than the difference betwee…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Advance information of employees enabling them to make an offer in the event of the sale of a business in undertakings subject to the obligation to set up a works council

Article L141-28

In companies subject to the obligation to set up a works council pursuant to article L. 2322-1 of the Labour Code and which, at the close of the last financial year, fell into the category of small an…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 3: Community of communes

Article L5842-22

I. - Article L. 5214-16, with the exception of VI and VII, and Articles L. 5214-16-1 to L. 5214-22 are applicable in French Polynesia subject to the adaptations provided for in II.II. - For the applic…

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