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Showing 501510 of 49658 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 27-2-1991 n° 410

French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General procedural rules

Article R321-27

When the supervisory board wishes to hear a person pursuant to III of article L. 327-11, the interested party is notified by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt at least fifteen days bef…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Appeals to the Court of Appeal against decisions of the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property

Article R411-27

As soon as it is constituted, the defendant's lawyer shall inform the plaintiff's lawyer and, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, the Director General of the National Institute of In…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Professional non-trading companies

Article R422-27

Each shareholder may, at any time, inspect, under the conditions set out in Article 48 of Decree no. 78-704 of 3 July 1978, the company's annual financial statements and the report on the company's re…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 3 : Issue of plant variety certificates

Article R623-27

The certificate is entered in the National Register of Plant Variety Certificates under the conditions set out in article R. 623-40.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 4: Joint Conciliation Committee

Article R615-27

Where the invention concerns national defence, the conciliation proposal shall not contain any analysis of the invention likely to result in its disclosure.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 5: Performance of the credit agreement

Article R313-27

For the advances provided for in articles R. 312-3-1 of the Code de la construction et de l'habitation applicable at the time of the offer of advance.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Provisions common to consumer credit and home loans

Article R341-27

A repeat offence of the offences punishable under articles R. 341-20 to R. 341-26 is punished in accordance with the provisions of articles 132-11 and 132-15 of the Penal Code.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Inspection of products before release for free circulation

Article R512-27

The department to which the authorised agent reports informs the sample holder of the results of the sample analysis. If the analysis establishes that the sample does not comply with the regulations,…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Court-ordered liquidation and compulsory compensation for damages

Article R623-27

If no claim for compensation has been lodged with the court within the time limit set pursuant to Article L. 623-11, the judge shall declare the proceedings terminated.

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Paragraph 1: Issue

Article R421-27

The list and approval procedures for organisations issuing the hosting agreement referred to in article L. 421-14 and the standard model of this agreement are established by joint order of the ministe…

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