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Showing 29712980 of 12814 articles for Art. T. confl. 13-10-2014 n° 3963

French Civil CodeIn force
Title III: Domicile

Article 108-3

Adults under guardianship are domiciled with their guardian.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Publication of civil status records

Article 101-2

…updating and the conditions for issuing and securing it are laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. Its model is defined by decree.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Publication of civil status records

Article 101-1

…e content and conditions for issuing full copies and extracts are set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. The procedure for secure verification of personal data contained in civil status records may be i…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Medically assisted procreation with third-party donors

Article 342-10

…is not the product of medically assisted procreation or that consent has been deprived of its effect. Consent is deprived of effect in the event of death, the filing of an application for divorce or…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title: XIV: Measures to protect victims of violence

Article 515-10

…by the public prosecutor. Its issue is not conditional on the existence of a prior criminal complaint.As soon as the application for a protection order is received, the judge summons, by any suitable…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-10

The judge shall rule, at the request of any interested party or the public prosecutor, on any difficulties that may arise in the implementation of the system.Selected for this purpose under the condit…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle II: Restorative justice

Article 10-1

…the victim and the offender have been fully informed about it and have expressly agreed to take part. It is carried out by an independent third party trained for this purpose, under the supervision o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle III: Victims' rights

Article 10-5

…ith the agreement of the competent judicial authority. The victim will be involved in this assessment. Where applicable, the victim support association requested by the public prosecutor or investigat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle III: Victims' rights

Article 10-3

If the civil party does not understand the French language, he or she is entitled, at his or her request, to the assistance of an interpreter and to the translation, into a language that he or she und…

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

Article 2-10

Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years on the date of the events and that, by virtue of its articles of association, is dedicated to combating the social or cultural exc…

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