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Showing 721730 of 40190 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 4-6-1971

French Customs CodeIn force
Section 1: Right to inspect goods, means of transport and persons.

Article 63

I. - For the purposes of this Code, Regulation (EU) 2018/1672 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on controls of cash entering or leaving the Union and repealing Regulatio…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 611-26

Selective financial assistance helps to cover the following publishing costs:1° Purchases and pre-purchases of exploitation rights and, where applicable, payment of guaranteed minimums;2° Expenditure…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Service.

Article 656

If no one is able or willing to receive the copy of the document and if it is clear from the checks made by the bailiff, which will be mentioned in the document of service, that the addressee does ind…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 5: Customs controls on postal consignments.

Article 66

1. For the purposes of investigating and establishing the offences provided for in this Code, customs officers shall have access to the premises of postal service providers and express freight compani…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Trial of offences committed in court

Article 677

If the act committed during the hearing of a correctional tribunal or court is a misdemeanour, it may be proceeded with as stated in the previous article. In this case, if the sentence pronounced is m…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Transmission and execution of requests for mutual assistance

Article 694

In the absence of an international agreement stipulating otherwise: 1° Requests for mutual assistance from French judicial authorities to foreign judicial authorities shall be transmitted via the Mini…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Guardianship and trusteeship

Article 440

A person who, without being incapable of acting himself, needs, for one of the reasons provided for in Article 425, to be assisted or controlled in a continuous manner in the important acts of civil l…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-1

When a person is unable to look after his own interests due to a medically certified impairment of either his mental faculties or his physical faculties such as to prevent him from expressing his wish…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-7

The person authorised to represent the protected person may, unless the judge decides otherwise, carry out the acts mentioned in the first paragraph of Article 427.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-11

Other than the death of the person in respect of whom family habilitation has been issued, it is terminated:1° By the person concerned being placed under legal protection, curatorship or guardianship;…

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