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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions for setting up and running health centres

Article D6323-9

…body by any means which confers a date certain on its receipt. This receipt shall include the name and address of the health facility concerned, the identification number of the health centre's manag…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Scope of application

Article 991

…company or company or with any other French or foreign insurer is subject, regardless of the place and date at which it is or was entered into, to an annual and compulsory tax in return for payment o…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Capacity to dispose of or receive by gift inter vivos or by will.

Article 910

I. - Dispositions inter vivos or by will for the benefit of health establishments, social and medico-social establishments or establishments of public utility shall only have effect insofar as they ar…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exercise of the reduction

Article 924

…ver this excess may be. The payment of the compensation by the reserved heir is made by taking less and in priority by way of deduction from his rights in the reserve.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exercise of the reduction

Article 926

…he reduction shall be made by the marc le franc, without any distinction between universal legacies and particular legacies.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exercise of the reduction

Article 921

…n heir are likely to be affected by gifts made by the deceased, he shall inform each heir concerned and known, individually and, where applicable, before any division, of his right to apply for a redu…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exercise of the reduction

Article 922

…er vivos are fictitiously joined to this mass, according to their state at the time of the donation and their value at the opening of the succession, after deducting from them the debts or charges enc…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exercise of the reduction

Article 923

…d until the value of all the property included in the testamentary dispositions has been exhausted; and when there is need for such reduction, it shall be made beginning with the last donation, and so…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exercise of the reduction

Article 928

Where the reduction is carried out in kind, the donee returns the fruits of what exceeds the available portion, from the day of the donor's death, if the application for reduction is made within the y…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Exercise of the reduction

Article 927

…tends such a legacy to be discharged in preference to the others, this preference shall take place; and the legacy which is the subject thereof shall be reduced only to the extent that the value of th…

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