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Showing 16311640 of 24299 articles for Art. Cass. com. – 10 Feb. 2021 – no. 19-13.604

French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Provisions applicable to professional non-trading companies

Article R743-100

…ransfer or purchase them, in accordance with the provisions in third paragraph of article 19 of law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966. This period may be renewed by the Minister of Justice at the request…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Drawing up the annual list of citizen assessors

Article R2-10

…dicial tribunal to order the removal of a citizen assessor from the annual list pursuant to Article 10-6. The First President of the Court of Appeal, after summoning the citizen assessor and giving hi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Patentable inventions

Article L611-10

1. New inventions involving an inventive step and capable of industrial application shall be patentable in all fields of technology. 2. The following in particular shall not be regarded as inventions…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

Article L2135-10

…l security contributions defined in article L. 242-1 of the social security code and article L. 741-10 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, the rate of which is set by an agreement concluded betwee…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter V: Family proceedings

Article 1074-4

…formation relating to the date on which the maintenance allowance or financial intermediation ends; 10° Where applicable, information, not in detail, to the effect that one of the parties has produced…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope and definitions

Article R5124-10

…ucts for human use, experimental medicinal products for human use, products mentioned in 8°, 9° and 10° of article L. 5121-1, products mentioned in 2° of article L. 4211-1 ; 2° The manufacture or impo…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Status of statutory auditors.

Article L822-10

…hartered accountants and under the conditions set out in the third paragraph of article 22 of order no. 45-2138 of 19 September 1945 establishing the Ordre des Experts Comptables and regulating the ti…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Cooperative societies.

Article R4131-10

…duly registered with the Medical Register, governed by articles 1832 et seq. of the Civil Code, law no. 47-1775 of 10 September 1947 on the status of cooperatives and the present section. Where it is…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Constitution

Article R4381-10

…ion and who are entered on the roll under the conditions laid down by articles R. 4113-4 to R. 4113-10.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Undertakings for collective real estate investment.

Article R214-106

…rticle L. 214-40, account is taken of : 1° In the denominator, the assets mentioned in 4° and 6° to 10° of I of article L. 214-36 held by the undertaking ; 2° In the numerator, the debt of the real es…

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