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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-11

…son concerned being placed under legal protection, curatorship or guardianship;2° In the event of a final and binding discharge judgment issued by the judge at the request of the protected person, one…

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

Article 6

…ations must then be considered as suspended from the day on which the judgment or ruling had become final until the day on which the person guilty of forgery or use of forgeries was convicted. It may…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Criminal provisions.

Article L1525-5

…udulently alter the composition, weight or volume of the goods, even before these operations; c) Or finally using fraudulent indications designed to make people believe in a previous and accurate oper…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Definitive approval

Article D331-15

The final approval decision is notified to the delegated production company or, in the case of a delegated co-production, to each of the two production companies. This decision states that, in the lig…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Definitive approval

Article D331-35

The final approval decision is notified to the video game creation company or, in the case of a joint creation, to the video game creation companies. This decision states that, in the light of the inf…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Shares.

Article L228-28

…off the company shall have recourse for the whole against the successive holders of the share. The final burden of the debt shall fall on the last of them. Two years after the transfer from one secur…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Designation

Article L2122-10

…r and deputy mayors ends automatically when the administrative court, by a decision that has become final, has rectified the results of the election of municipal councillors in such a way that the maj…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Rights and obligations of undivided co-owners.

Article 815-11

…r a provisional distribution of the profits subject to an account to be drawn up at the time of the final liquidation.Up to the funds available, he may similarly order a capital advance on the undivid…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Applications for review and reconsideration

Article 622-1

A review of a final criminal judgment may be requested for the benefit of any person convicted of an offence where it follows from a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights that the conviction…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Recognition of judicial review decisions

Article 696-74

…vision is based on offences for which the person placed under judicial supervision has already been finally judged by the court of a State that is not a member of the European Union, provided that the…

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