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Showing 801810 of 57821 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 3-2-2010 n° 08-21.333

French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 367

The adoption retains all its effects, notwithstanding the subsequent establishment of a parent-child relationship.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 369

Reasons must be given for the judgment revoking the adoption.The operative part of the judgment is mentioned in the margin of the birth certificate or the transcription of the adoption judgment, under…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 366

In the adopted person's estate, in the absence of descendants and a surviving spouse, the property donated by the adopter or received into his or her estate reverts to the adopter or his or her descen…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Delegation of parental authority

Article 377

The father and mother, together or separately, may, where circumstances so require, apply to the judge to have all or part of the exercise of their parental authority delegated to a third party, a fam…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 365

The adopted person and his or her descendants have, in the adopter's family, the succession rights provided for in Chapter III of Title I of Book III.The adopted person and his or her descendants do n…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Public prosecutor's delegates and mediators

Article R15-33-32

The application submitted by an association shall include in particular: 1° A copy of the Journal officiel publishing the declaration of the association or, as regards the departments of Bas-Rhin, Hau…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VIII: Default in criminal matters

Article 379-3

The court shall examine the case and rule on the charge without the assistance of the jurors, unless other defendants tried simultaneously in the proceedings are present, or the absence of the defenda…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General duties of midwives.

Article R4127-310-3

Practitioners from other Member States of the European Union or the European Economic Area who have been granted partial access to the profession of midwife underarticle L. 4002-5 of the Public Health…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 231-29

Where the second paragraph of Article…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: The Interministerial Commission for the Recognition of the State of Natural Disaster

Article D125-3-3

The Chairman of the Commission may decide that a deliberation will be organised by means of a telephone or audiovisual conference under the conditions laid down in Order no. 2014-1329 of 6 November 20…

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