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Showing 23112320 of 50639 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 15-2-2006 n° 231

French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Grounds for postponing the starting point or suspending the limitation period.

Article 2239

The statute of limitations is also suspended when the judge grants a request for an investigative measure submitted before any trial.The statute of limitations starts to run again, for a period of not…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Grounds for postponing the starting point or suspending the limitation period.

Article 2234

Prescription shall not run or shall be suspended against a person who is unable to act as a result of an impediment resulting from law, agreement or force majeure.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Audiovisual production contract

Article L132-25-2

I.-One or more agreements relating to the remuneration of authors concluded between the professional authors' organisations, the collective management organisations mentioned in Title II of Book III o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: General provisions.

Article L321-23-2

I.-Any breach of the laws, regulations or professional obligations applicable to the persons mentioned in I and II of article L. 321-4 and to persons authorised to manage sales pursuant to the first p…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter II: Materials vigilance.

Article L5212-2-2

For public health reasons, the Minister for Health, the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé and the Agence nationale de santé publique may access anonymous data relatin…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Provisions relating to the official statement of offence, the notice of offence and the payment card for forfeited offences

Article A37-20-2

Online challenges may be made for the following reasons: 1° The vehicle in question has been, sold, transferred, stolen, destroyed or had its number plates stolen; 2° Another driver was presumed to be…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 9: Reimbursement of a payment transaction ordered by the payee or by the payer who gives a payment order via the payee

Article L133-25-2

The payer and his payment service provider may agree in the deposit account agreement or in the framework agreement for payment services that the payer is not entitled to a refund where he has given h…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L3121-2-2

By way of derogation from 8° of Article L. 4211-1, in vitro diagnostic medical devices and their accessories intended to perform self-diagnostics, as defined in point 5 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU)…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Penalties

Article L354-2

…sulting from Order no. 2019-740 of 17 July 2019 L. 341-2 and L. 341-3 Resulting from the ordonnance n° 2016-301 du 14 mars 2016 L. 341-4 Resulting from the ordonnance n° 2019-740 du 17 juillet 2019 L.…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Chapter II: Tax on the profits of companies and other legal entities

Article 212

…ovisions of the second paragraph of 3° of 1 of article 39 do not apply to companies governed by loi n° 47-1775 du 10 septembre 1947 portant statut de la coopération.

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