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Showing 11511160 of 25965 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 24-10-2019 n° 18-20.838

French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-18

In the event of the concealment or misrepresentation referred to in article L. 113-8, in the event that the insured has voluntarily taken his own life during the period referred to in article L. 132-7…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Water and sanitation

Article R2224-18

…t is kept in secure conditions and in accordance with the provisions of 5° of l'article 6 de la loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 modifiée relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés. The pro…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Internal model

Article R352-18

Insurance and reinsurance undertakings shall demonstrate to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution that they make extensive use of their internal model and that it plays an important rol…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Conditions for authorising laboratories

Article R1131-18

The holder of the authorisation referred to in Article R. 1131-13 is required to declare to the competent regional health agency and to the Agence de la biomédecine, the names of the approved practiti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Organisational conditions for medically assisted procreation activities

Article R2142-18

The multidisciplinary clinical-biological medical team referred to in Article L. 2141-2 is composed, for clinical activities involving medically assisted procreation, of at least : 1° A doctor qualifi…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: National medical biology commission

Article R6213-18

The following are members of the commission, appointed by order of the Minister for Health, for a renewable term of five years:1° A medical biologist appointed by the Académie nationale de médecine ;2…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1843-4

I. - In cases where the law refers to this article to determine the price conditions for a transfer of a shareholder's corporate rights, or the repurchase of such rights by the company, the value of s…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VI: Compensation procedures.

Article L211-18

In the event of an order resulting from a court decision that is enforceable, even provisionally, the legal interest rate is increased by 50% on expiry of a period of two months and is doubled on expi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Agreements relating to the exercise of undivided rights in the absence of a usufructuary.

Article 1873-15

Article 815-17 is applicable to joint ownership creditors, as well as to the personal creditors of the joint owners. However, the latter may only bring about partition in cases where their debtor coul…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 1: The Borough Council

Article L2511-18

The inventory of local facilities is set by joint deliberations of the city council or Paris council and the arrondissement council, and, where applicable, amended in the same forms.In the event of di…

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