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Showing 13711380 of 33065 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 6-7-1982 n° 1162

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article L1614-6

…soutien à l'investissement des départements;- the resources provided for in article 113 of the loi n° 83-8 du 7 janvier 1983 précitée;- the appropriations corresponding to the abolition of the munici…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Recognition of European investigation decisions

Article 694-31

…liability for press offences in the loi du 29 juillet 1881 sur la liberté de la presseet de la loi n° 82-652 du 29 juillet 1982 sur la communication audiovisuelle; 3° If the decision relates to the t…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: Service of documents abroad.

Article 688

The court shall be seised of the claim made by writ by the delivery to it of the document completed with the information provided for in Article 684-1 or, as the case may be, in Article 687-1, where a…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions applicable to compensation for personal injury.

Article R421-7

Where, in the circumstances referred to in article R. 421-6, a claim for compensation is brought before a court other than a criminal court, the injured party or those entitled on his behalf must, in…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Effects of the appeal in cassation.

Article 621

If the appeal in cassation is dismissed, the party who lodged it is no longer eligible to lodge a new appeal against the same judgment, except in the case provided for in Article 618. The same applies…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Forgery

Article 645

Any public custodian of documents alleged to be forged, or having been used to establish forgeries, is required, by order of the examining magistrate, to hand them over to him and to provide, where ap…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VI: Transfers from one court to another

Article 663

Where two investigating judges, belonging to the same court or to different courts, are simultaneously seised of related offences or different offences in respect of which the same person or the same…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-7

Insurance in the event of death is void if the insured voluntarily commits suicide during the first year of the contract.Insurance in the event of death must cover the risk of suicide from the second…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Special provisions for the importation of plasma pastes and labile blood products intended for the preparation of health products.

Article D1221-65

When the import concerns plasma pastes or labile blood products intended for the preparation of health products, the authorisation referred to in Article D. 1221-58 is issued to the following organisa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Special provisions for the importation of plasma pastes and labile blood products intended for the preparation of health products.

Article D1221-67

Notwithstanding the provisions of the first paragraph of Article D. 1221-58, the import authorisation may be issued by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des pro…

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