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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section II: Fees for the issue of documents and miscellaneous levies

Article 959

Genuinely indigent persons recognised as being unable to pay the amount are exempt from the stamp duty provided for in article 958

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IV: Free pricing and competition.

Article R430-9

In the event of total or partial annulment of a decision taken by the Autorité de la concurrence or by the Minister responsible for the economy on the basis of Articles L. 430-5, L. 430-7, L. 430-7-1,…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Inheritance reserve and available share

Article 912

The hereditary reserve is that part of the estate's assets and rights which the law ensures devolve free of encumbrances to certain heirs known as reservataires, if they are called to the succession a…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Inheritance reserve and available share

Article 916

In the absence of a descendant and an undivorced surviving spouse, gifts by inter vivos deeds or wills may exhaust all assets.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Inheritance reserve and available share

Article 913

Deliveries, either by inter vivos deeds or by will, may not exceed half of the disposer's property, if he leaves only one child at his death; one-third, if he leaves two children; one-quarter, if he l…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Inheritance reserve and available share

Article 917

If the disposition by inter vivos deed or by will is of a usufruct or a life annuity the value of which exceeds the available portion, the heirs in whose favour the law makes a reservation, shall have…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Continuing training

Article D1442-9

Employee industrial tribunal members benefiting from the leave provided for in article D. 1442-7 are not taken into account: 1° When determining the number of beneficiaries of training leave, as provi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
7: Information to be provided by the owner

Article 78

Whether it is a farm lease or a sharecropping lease, the owner is required, each time the lease is renewed or amended, to submit to the administration, within three months, a declaration indicating th…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: General conditions of employment, recruitment and grading

Article R113-9

Contractual agents of the establishment appointed to a post in a category or class higher than that to which they belonged or to a management post are classified at a step with an index equal to or, f…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Safety of the film base of cinematographic works

Article D210-9

The circulation, distribution and projection of positive copies made on film that does not comply with the requirements of French standard S. 24.001 are prohibited.Positive copies withdrawn from circu…

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