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Showing 361370 of 24710 articles for Art. Cass. com. 13-11-1962 n° 60-10.147

French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial organisation

Article L114-13

The acts of the sports resources, expertise and performance centres relating to the budget and its modifications are prepared, adopted and become enforceable under the conditions defined in articles &…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions for using the account

Article R4163-13

The first twenty points registered are reserved for the use referred to in 1° of I of article L. 4163-7, unless they are used for the professional retraining project referred to in 4° of I of the same…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Unsealing.

Article 1322

If necessary, the bailiff may provisionally unseal the seals, which must then be reapplied as soon as the operation that made the unsealing necessary has been completed. The bailiff shall draw up a re…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: The inventory.

Article 1330

In addition to the particulars prescribed, as the case may be, for deeds drawn up by a judicial auctioneer, a bailiff or a notary, by the laws and regulations applicable to these professions, the inve…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 130

Where a transfer is required under the conditions provided for in articles 128 and 129, the person must be brought before the investigating judge who issued the warrant within four days of notificatio…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Deeds under private signature

Article 1376

A private deed in which one party undertakes to pay another a sum of money or to deliver a fungible good is only evidence if it includes the signature of the party making the undertaking and a stateme…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Unsealing.

Article 1319

Seals may be unsealed without an inventory when all the parties called are present or represented and do not object to this being done. If this is not the case, an inventory shall be drawn up by the j…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1392

The option open to the survivor lapses if he has not exercised it, by notification to the heirs of the predeceased, within one month of the day on which they have given him formal notice to take sides…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Joint and several liability

Article 1315

The joint and several debtor sued by the creditor may raise defences common to all the co-debtors, such as nullity or resolution, and those which are personal to him. He may not raise defences that ar…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article 1390

They may, however, stipulate that on the dissolution of the marriage by the death of one of them, the surviving spouse shall have the option of acquiring or, as the case may be, having attributed to h…

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