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Showing 131140 of 45497 articles for Art. Loi 2019-222 du 23-3-2019

French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Investment services providers

Article L775-23

I.-Subject to the provisions of II, the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-hand colum…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Annexes II

Article Annexe II-23 (art. A231-3)

…more than in other years? □ □ Have you lost weight or put on weight a lot? □ □ Have you been dizzy during exertion? □ □ Did you lose consciousness or fall without remembering what had happened? □ □ D…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Single chapter: The Autorité des marchés financiers

Article R621-23

Revenue and expenditure accounts may be set up at the Autorité des marchés financiers by decision of the Chairman, with the approval of the accounting officer, under the conditions laid down by Decree…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER V: Endowments, grants and miscellaneous funds

Article D. 2335-23

I.-The fixed portion provided for in the second paragraph of article L. 2335-16 amounts to €9,000. The variable portion provided for in the same paragraph is allocated according to the following scale…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Effects of the guarantee between the guarantors

Article 2312

If there is more than one guarantor, the one who paid has a personal claim and a subrogatory claim against the others, each for its share.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Assignment of sums of money as security

Article 2374

Ownership of a sum of money, either in euros or in another currency, may be assigned as security for one or more present or future claims.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Divorce on grounds of permanent impairment of the marriage bond

Article 237

Divorce may be requested by either spouse when the marital bond has been definitively altered.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Divorce on grounds of permanent impairment of the marriage bond

Article 238

The definitive alteration of the marital bond results from the cessation of community of life between the spouses, where they have been living apart for one year at the time of the application for div…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Special privileges

Article 2332

…r than those provided for by special laws, preferential claims on certain movables are: 1° All sums due in execution of a lease or the occupation of a building, on the furniture furnishing the premise…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General mortgages

Article 2393

…mortgage is attached are: 1° Those of one of the spouses against the other; 2° Those of minors or adults under guardianship against the legal administrator or guardian; > (Repealed) 3° (Repealed); 4°…

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