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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions specific to securitisation undertakings

Article D214-232

…% of the undertaking's assets under the conditions defined in Article D. 214-232-2, to risks in the form of either financial securities or any other asset which does not constitute exposure to an insu…

AI translation · Updated 6 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Paragraph 4: Social action and health (R).

Article R1614-30

…the previous year, the president of the departmental council sends the prefect, using standardised forms: 1° A statistical statement of the staff and activities of the departmental health and social…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article L131-6

A clause in an assignment that tends to confer the right to exploit the work in a form not foreseeable or not provided for at the date of the contract must be express and stipulate a correlative share…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 1: General provisions and differentiated exercise of powers

Article L1111-3

…ts and regions may not authorise one of these authorities to establish or exercise tutelage, in any form whatsoever, over another of them.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Common provisions.

Article 248

The technician is prohibited from receiving directly from a party, in any form whatsoever, any remuneration even by way of reimbursement of disbursements, except by order of the judge.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 17-12

Where a change of nationality is subject, under the terms of an international convention, to the performance of an act of option, the form of that act is determined by the law of the contracting count…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article L132-11

…eath has been taken out without the designation of a beneficiary, the guaranteed capital or annuity forms part of the policyholder's estate or succession.

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 2: Contracts with instalments

Article R2113-5

The services of the firm tranche must form a coherent whole; the same applies to the services of each optional tranche, taking into account the services of all the previous tranches.

AI translation · Updated 8 Nov 2023Open Article
French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Designation

Article L2122-13

…e election of the mayor and deputy mayors may be challenged as invalid under the conditions, in the forms and within the time limits prescribed for complaints against elections to the municipal counci…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Appeals to the Court of Cassation

Article 591

…ating chamber and final rulings and judgments handed down by the trial courts, when they are in the form prescribed by law, may only be quashed for breach of the law..

AI translation · Updated 7 Nov 2023Open Article
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