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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Financial institutions

Article 1063

Subject to the provisions of 3° of l'article 679, the certificates of ownership and notarial deeds required by the savings banks and the national savings bank to effect the repayment, transfer or rene…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section IV: Damaged property

Article 1059

Subject to the provisions of 3° of Article 679, plans, reports, certificates, notifications, judgments, contracts, receipts and other acts made pursuant to the loi du 29 décembre 1892 sur les dommages…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Public authorities, public institutions or public utilities

Article 1043

In accordance with the provisions of articles L. 2113-5, L. 5212-27, L. 5215-28, L. 5217-2 and L. 5217-6 of the General Code of Territorial Authorities, the transfers of property, rights or obligation…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IX: Arrangements between spouses, either by marriage contract or during marriage.

Article 1098

If a spouse has made to his or her spouse, within the limits of article 1094-1, a gift in property, each of the children who are not descended from both spouses shall have, as far as he or she is conc…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Judicial divorce and legal separation

Article 1099

On the appointed day, the judge proceeds in accordance with the procedures set out in articles 250 to 250-3 of the Civil Code; it verifies the admissibility of the application; it ensures that the spo…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Nationality of natural persons

Article 1038

The judicial court has exclusive jurisdiction to hear at first instance disputes concerning the French or foreign nationality of natural persons, subject to the provisions set out in the Civil Code fo…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title VII: Provisions specific to the Cour de cassation.

Article 1013

In addition to the cases in which the Chamber rules in restricted formation, the President may, in particular when the complexity of the case justifies it, appoint two rapporteurs from among the counc…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Agricultural organisations

Article 1028

I. - Real estate transactions resulting from the application of the provisions of Article 15, as amended, of Act no. 60-808 du 5 août 1960 d'orientation agricole (1), carried out by sociétés d'aménage…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Judicial divorce and legal separation

Article 1090

The application, which does not state the facts giving rise to the application, must contain, on pain of inadmissibility: 1° The surname, first names, profession, residence, nationality, date and plac…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
a: General information

Article 108

The provisions of articles 109 to 117 set out the rules for determining income distributed by : 1° Legal entities subject to the tax provided for in Chapter II of this Title; 2° Legal entities and joi…

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