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Showing 31413150 of 52466 articles for Art. Cass. com. 7-2-1989 n° 242

French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Subsidiaries, holdings and controlled companies

Article L233-7-1

When the company's shares have ceased to be admitted to trading on a regulated market in order to be admitted to trading on a multilateral trading facility subject to the provisions of II of Article L…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Discharge of liabilities.

Article L643-7-1

A creditor who has received a payment in breach of the rule of equality of unsecured creditors or as a result of an error in the order of privileges must return the sums so paid.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: Overall operating grant

Article L2334-7-3

…iling that, from the twelfths provided for in article L. 2332-2 and in II of l'article 46 de la loi n° 2005-1719 du 30 décembre 2005 de finances pour 2006 de la commune. If, for a commune, this levy w…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Private equity funds.

Article D214-80-7

An order of the Minister for the Economy defines the presentation format and specifies the calculation methods for the items mentioned in articles D. 214-80 to D. 214-80-6.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article R2224-19-7

The collection, excluding contentious procedures, of charges for water consumption and charges for collective and non-collective sanitation may be entrusted to the same body, which will show the detai…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

Article R2224-5-7

Information for people with no or limited access to water intended for human consumption, as provided for in 3° of article L. 2224-7-3, may be carried out by making data relating to the geographical l…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Trading platforms

Article R*763-6

Article R*. 424-2 is applicable in French Polynesia in the version resulting from Decree no. 2017-733 of 4 May 2017.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Trading platforms

Article R*763-9

Article R*. 425-1 is applicable in French Polynesia in the version resulting from Decree no. 2017-733 of 4 May 2017.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Trading platforms

Article R*762-9

Article R*. 425-1 is applicable in New Caledonia in the version resulting from Decree no. 2017-733 of 4 May 2017.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Trading platforms

Article R*764-6

Article R*. 424-2 is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands in the version resulting from Decree no. 2017-733 of 4 May 2017.

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