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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Easements deriving from the location of premises

Article 641

Any owner has the right to use and dispose of rainwater that falls on his land.If the use of this water or the direction given to it aggravates the natural flow easement established by article 640, co…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3142-69

The employer may refuse to grant the leave if it considers that the absence is likely to have a detrimental effect on the smooth running of the company.The employer's refusal is made after consulting…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3142-67

An employee participating in a mission outside France on behalf of a humanitarian association governed by the law of 1st July 1901 relating to the contract of association or entered in the register of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Public policy

Article L3142-68

The period of leave cannot be deducted from the period of paid annual leave and is treated as a period of actual work for the purposes of determining the legal and collective bargaining benefits linke…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Forgery

Article 642

When it is brought to the attention of the public prosecutor that a document alleged to be forged is in a public depository or has been drawn up in a public depository, the public prosecutor may go to…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title V: Judges' rules

Article 657

When two investigating judges, belonging to the same court or to different courts, are simultaneously seised of the same offence, the public prosecutor may, in the interests of the proper administrati…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Deeds and transfers other than transfers by death

Article 655

Wills made in foreign countries may not be executed on property situated in France, unless they have been registered with the tax office of the testator's domicile, if he has retained one, otherwise w…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: Service of documents abroad.

Article 688

The court shall be seised of the claim made by writ by the delivery to it of the document completed with the information provided for in Article 684-1 or, as the case may be, in Article 687-1, where a…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Effects of the appeal in cassation.

Article 621

If the appeal in cassation is dismissed, the party who lodged it is no longer eligible to lodge a new appeal against the same judgment, except in the case provided for in Article 618. The same applies…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Forgery

Article 645

Any public custodian of documents alleged to be forged, or having been used to establish forgeries, is required, by order of the examining magistrate, to hand them over to him and to provide, where ap…

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