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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 5: Subscription, purchase or pledge by companies of their own shares.

Article L225-207

The General Meeting that has decided on a capital reduction not motivated by losses may authorise the Board of Directors or the Management Board, as the case may be, to purchase a specific number of s…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Capital amortisation.

Article L225-201

Shareholders may be authorised, under the same conditions, to pay the company the amortised amount of their shares, increased, where applicable, by the first dividend or the statutory interest for the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Reduction of capital.

Article L225-204

A capital reduction is authorised or decided by the Extraordinary General Meeting, which may delegate to the Board of Directors or the Management Board, as the case may be, all powers to carry it out.…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 4: Reduction of capital.

Article L225-205

When the meeting approves a proposed capital reduction not motivated by losses, the representative of the bondholders' group and the creditors whose claims predate the date on which the minutes of the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Capital amortisation.

Article L225-200

Where the capital is divided either into capital shares and fully or partially amortised shares, or into unequally amortised shares, the General Meeting of shareholders may decide, under the condition…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-20

The State may, at any time, by decree, expropriate, in whole or in part, for the needs of national defence, inventions, which are the subject of patent applications or patents. Failing amicable agreem…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules of jurisdiction and procedure

Article L615-20

The court before which an action or plea falling within the provisions of this Title is brought may, either of its own motion or at the request of one of the parties, appoint any consultant of its cho…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Provisions common to consumer credit and home loans

Article L314-20

Performance of the debtor's obligations may be suspended, particularly in the event of dismissal, by order of the protection litigation judge under the conditions set out in Article 1343-5 of the Civi…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 7: Termination of the transaction

Article L315-20

On the death of the borrower or the last living of the co-borrowers, the heirs may pay the debt capped at the value of the property estimated on the day the estate is opened. This valuation is carried…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section VIII: Income tax deducted at source

Article 204 L

When one of the members of the tax household no longer has income or profits in one of the categories mentioned in article 204 C in respect of the current year, it may request to no longer pay the por…

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