The Judicial Authority, guardian of the freedom of the individual, shall ensure compliance with this principle in the conditions laid down by statute.
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Charter for the environment-2004 (Republic of France)
Public policies shall promote sustainable development. To this end they shall reconcile the protection and enhancement of the environment with economic development and social progress.
Rules of procedure of National Assembly of France-2010
Rules of procedure February 2010 WARNING 1 ° The provisions in italics of the third sentence in article 16, paragraph 2 and of article 149, paragraph 4, as well as the versión in italics of article 28, shall come…
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Law of Succession under the French Civil Code
A succession is opened by civil death from the moment at which that death is incurred, conformably to the regulations of chap. 2, section 2, of the title, "Of the Enjoyment and Privation of Civil Rights."
Enjoyment and Privation of Civil Rights – Title-1: French (Napoleon) Civil Code
Every child born of a Frenchman in a foreign country is French. Every child born in a foreign country of a Frenchman who shall have lost the quality of a Frenchman, may at any time recover this quality by complying with the formalities prescribed in the ninth article.
The Salic Law enacted by Clovis I- 500 CE
If any one shall set fire to a house in which men were sleeping, as many freemen as were in it can make complaint before the "Thing;" and if any one shall have been burned in it, the incendiary shall be sentenced to 2500 denars, which make 63 shillings.
The Civil Code of Napoleon 1803
he promulgation made by the first consul shall be taken to be known in the department which shall be the seat of government, one day after the promulgation; and in each of the other departments, after the expiration of the same interval augmented by one day for every ten myriameters (about twenty ancient leagues) between the town in which the promulgation shall have been made, and the chief place of each department.
French Civil Code
Statutes and administrative acts, when the latter are published in the Journal officiel de la République
française, take effect on the date they specify or, if none is specified, on the day following the date of
their publication. Nevertheless, if the enforcement of some provisions of such acts requires an additional
enactment, the effective date of the enforcement of these provisions is deferred to the effective date of the
additional enactment.
In case of an emergency, statutes whose decree of promulgation so declares and administrative acts for
which the Government so orders by special provision, shall enter into force immediately upon their
publication.
The provisions of this Article do not apply to acts applicable to individuals.
Constitution of France -1958
The French People solemnly proclaim their attachment to Human Rights and to the principles of national sovereignty as defined by the Declaration of 1789, confirmed and supplemented by the preamble to the 1946 Constitution, as well as to the rights and duties defined in the 2004 Environmental Charter.
By virtue of these principles and that of the self-determination of the peoples, the Republic offers to the overseas territories which manifest the will to join it new institutions based on the common ideal of freedom, equality and fraternity and designed for their democratic development.
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