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Showing 751760 of 31009 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 31-5-2007 n° 06-12.907

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Reorganisation and winding-up measures for credit institutions and investment firms

Article L613-31-2

I.-The reorganisation measures referred to in this sub-section are measures taken in France or in any other Member State by the administrative or judicial authorities, intended to preserve or restore…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules governing the devolution of surnames and customary names

Article 311-24-1

In the event of the birth abroad of a child at least one of whose parents is French, the transcription of the child's birth record must retain the child's name as it appears on the foreign birth recor…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: General rules governing general-purpose investment funds

Article L214-24-31

Notwithstanding Titles II and III of Book II and Title II of Book VIII of the French Commercial Code, the following provisions apply to SICAVs: 1° Shares must be fully paid up as soon as they are issu…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 7: Operating grant

Article R2315-31-1

The annual surplus from the operating budget may be transferred to the budget for social and cultural activities in accordance with article L. 2315-61, up to a limit of 10% of this surplus. This sum a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Drawing up and updating the national list of medical accident experts.

Article R1142-31-1

I.- Candidates who have never carried out expert appraisals or whose expert appraisals submitted when applying for inclusion on the list referred to inarticle L. 1142-11 do not allow them to be consid…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Provisions specific to the tribunal de grande instance.

Article ANNEXE, art. 31

In the judicial court, the legal claim is brought in accordance with the provisions of the code of civil procedure. Where the procedure is in writing, the claim may also be brought by delivery to the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article R61-31-1

The sentence enforcement judge may, by decision taken in accordance with the provisions of Article 712-8, suspend the execution of mobile electronic surveillance placement for medical reasons, in part…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Opinion of the college and compensation offer

Article R1142-63-31

In addition to its opinion, the college will forward to the insurers and the persons it considers responsible all the documents provided by the claimant to enable them to draw up an offer. Medical inf…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4: Determining taxable income

Article 31-0 bis

When a listed or registered historic monument, whether built or unbuilt, is the subject of a long lease for a period of at least eighteen years, the lessee is taxed as the owner on the income received…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 695-9-31

For the application of Council Framework Decision 2006/960/JHA of 18 December 2006, the services or units of the national police, the national gendarmerie, the Directorate-General for Customs and Exci…

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