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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Provisions specific to agricultural products and foodstuffs

Article L443-1

I.-Any advertisement aimed at the consumer, broadcast on any medium or visible from outside the point of sale, mentioning a price reduction or promotional price on perishable food products must specif…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: Assignment of contract

Article 1216-3

…e been granted survive. Otherwise, security interests granted by the assignor or by third parties only survive with their agreement.If the assignor is discharged, his joint and several co-debtors rema…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 1a: Information sent to the public prosecutor prior to referral to the guardianship judge

Article 1216-3

Departmental and communal social action services, departmental homes for people with disabilities, institutions implementing the method mentioned in article

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IV: Provisions relating to the ad hoc administrator

Article 1210-3

In addition to the reimbursement of their travel expenses, calculated in accordance with the conditions laid down for travel by civil servants for the Ministry of Justice, an allowance shall be paid t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article A43-5

In accordance with the provisions of Article R. 121, the compensation due, pursuant to article R. 121-3, to authorised associations that have entered into an agreement with the first president and the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2a: Provisions applicable to certain breaches of the Highway Code

Article 529-10

When the fixed fine notice concerning one of the offences mentioned in article L. 121-3 of the Highway Code has been sent to the holder of the registration certificate or to the persons referred to in…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Fees charged by commercial court registrars.

Article R743-142-3

For the filings mentioned in table 2 of article appendix 4-7, respectively made by individual entrepreneurs with limited liability to the register of commerce and companies, the register of commercial…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The special register of individual entrepreneurs with limited liability.

Article R526-18

The filing in the special register mentioned in article R. 526-15 of the descriptive statement provided for in I of article L. 526-8 as well as the documents attesting to the completion of the formali…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Shareholders' meetings.

Article L225-121

The deliberations taken by the meetings in violation of articles L. 225-96, L. 225-97, L. 225-98, the third and fourth paragraphs of article L. 225-99 and the second and third paragraphs of I of artic…

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

Article 4-1

The absence of unintentional criminal fault within the meaning of Article 121-3 of the Criminal Code does not prevent an action being brought before the civil courts to obtain compensation for damage…

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