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Showing 691700 of 44300 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. QPC 20-3-2014 n° 13-24.439 FS-PB

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-20

Investment services providers other than portfolio management companies authorised to provide the services mentioned in 1, 2 or 3 of Article L. 321-1 may initiate or conclude transactions with eligibl…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Reduction of capital.

Article L225-205

When the meeting approves a proposed capital reduction not motivated by losses, the representative of the bondholders' group and the creditors whose claims predate the date on which the minutes of the…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The jury

Article A212-20

By 31 December each year at the latest, the national joint employment and training committees with competence in the field of entertainment and sport propose for the following year, at the request of…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article R6123-203

I.-Authorisation is granted to applicants who provide: 1° Both outpatient surgical care and full-time inpatient surgical care; 2° Or outpatient surgical care only. In this case, the holder enters into…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Confusion

Article 1349

Confusion results when the qualities of creditor and debtor of the same obligation are combined in the same person. It extinguishes the claim and its accessories, subject to rights acquired by or agai…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Novation

Article 1331

Novation takes place only if both the old obligation and the new obligation are valid, unless its declared object is to substitute a valid undertaking for an undertaking which is vitiated by a defect.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Novation

Article 1335

Novation agreed between the creditor and one of the joint and several debtors discharges the others. A novation agreed between the creditor and a guarantor does not release the principal debtor. It re…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Novation

Article 1334

The extinction of the old obligation extends to all its accessories. As an exception, the original collateral may be reserved to secure the new obligation with the consent of the third-party guarantor…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Novation

Article 1329

Novation is a contract whose purpose is to substitute for an obligation, which it extinguishes, a new obligation which it creates. It can take place by substitution of obligation between the same part…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Novation

Article 1330

Novation cannot be presumed; the intention to effect it must be clear from the instrument.

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