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French General Tax CodeIn force
5°: Allocation of free shares to company employees

Article 1126

The free allotment by a company to all its employees of shares or corporate units in its capital does not give rise to the levying of any tax. The application of this provision is limited to transacti…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4°: Criminal record. Correction of entries

Article 1100

The fixed procedural fee referred to in 2° of Article 1018 A, payable for decisions rendered pursuant to the article 778 of the code of criminal procedure, for the rectification of entries made in cri…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
15°: Transactions in the capital of companies with public shareholdings

Article 1136

Transactions carried out by the State and governed by Title III of Ordinance no. 2014-948 of 20 August 2014 relating to the governance and capital transactions of companies with public shareholdings d…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
6°: Life certificates

Article 1128

Life certificates are exempt from registration.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
5°: Review of trials

Article 1109

The costs of proceedings for revision of criminal and correctional trials, made after the admissibility judgment, are advanced by the Treasury. If the final revision judgment or ruling pronounces a co…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
12°: Reunification of usufruct with bare ownership

Article 1133

Subject to the provisions of article 1020, the reunification of the usufruct with the bare ownership does not give rise to any tax or duty where such reunification takes place by the expiry of the tim…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Deeds of deposit

Article 1116

Deeds of deposit, in the minutes of a notary, of private deeds of sale, exchange and division of real estate or real estate rights, where the sums and values of any kind set out in the deeds deposited…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: Judicial divorce by mutual consent

Article 1103

The time limit for appealing to the Court of Cassation is fifteen days from the delivery of the decision homologating the spouses' agreement and pronouncing the divorce.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Appeal procedures

Article 1122

A protected adult of full age may only acquiesce in the divorce judgment, or withdraw from the appeal, with the authorisation of the guardianship judge.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: Judicial divorce by mutual consent

Article 1105

The costs of the proceedings shall be shared equally between the spouses. However, their agreement may provide otherwise subject to the application of provisions of article 123 of decree no. 2020-1717…

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