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Showing 11711180 of 28297 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 7-7-2016 n° 15-12370

French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Action for subsidies

Article 342-7

The judgment awarding the subsidies creates between the debtor and the beneficiary and, where applicable, between each of them and the parents or spouse of the other, the impediments to marriage regul…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 9: Drawing up and auditing the accounts of the social and economic committee

Article L2315-75

The annual accounts and, where applicable, the documents referred to in Article L. 2315-65, as well as the supporting documents relating thereto, are kept for ten years from the date of closure of the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Procedure applicable to employees with fixed-term employment contracts.

Article L2421-7

Termination of the fixed-term employment contract of an employee referred to in Article L. 2412-1 is subject to the same procedure as that provided for in Section 1, applicable in the event of dismiss…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Board of Directors.

Article D6431-7

The Director of the agency or, if he is unable to attend, his representative, attends meetings of the Board of Directors in an advisory capacity. He may be assisted by staff of his choice. The secreta…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter II: The guarantee fund for victims of terrorism and other offences.

Article R422-7

In the event of a medical examination being carried out on the victim of an act of terrorism at the request of the guarantee fund, the latter shall inform the victim at least fifteen days before the d…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-7

In the event of criminal prosecution for arson, legal entities governed by public law may bring a civil action before the court in order to obtain reimbursement, from the convicted party, of the costs…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Qualifications for succession.

Article 729-1

The children of the unworthy are not excluded by the fault of their author, either if they come to the succession in their own right or if they come to it by the effect of representation; but the unwo…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Court-appointed estate agents.

Article 813-7

At the request of any interested person or the Public Prosecutor, the judge may relieve the estate agent of his mission in the event of a clear breach in the exercise thereof. He will then appoint ano…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction

Article 706-21

In the cases provided for in article 706-18, the committal or arrest warrant shall remain enforceable; the prosecution or investigation acts and formalities that took place before the decision to reli…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title Ia: Electronically supervised home detention sentence

Article 713-46

The time limit for enforcement of the contrainte pénale may be suspended by the juge de l'application des peines if the sentenced person is incarcerated, except when the last three paragraphs of artic…

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