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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.68. Other consequences of a conditional transaction\n\n\n1. If a condition had already been fulfilled at the time when the transaction was concluded, such transaction shall be unconditional in the case of a suspensive condition, and null and void in the case of a resolutory condition.\n\n\n2. If non-fulfilment of the conditions was already certain at the time when the transaction was concluded, such transaction shall be unconditional in the case of a suspensive condition, and null and void in the case of a resolutory condition.\n\n\n3. A transaction subject to a suspensive condition which is objectively impossible shall be null and void; a transaction subject to a resolutory condition which is objectively impossible shall be unconditional.\n\n\n4. A transaction subject to a suspensive condition shall be null and void if the condition is dependent solely upon the will of the debtor."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.69. Place of the conclusion of a transaction\n\n\n1. A unilateral transaction shall be deemed to have been concluded in the place where the will of a party to the transaction is expressed (the place where an authorisation is given or a will (a testament) is made, etc.).\n\n\n2. A bilateral or multilateral transaction shall be deemed to have been concluded in the place of residence or business of the offeror unless otherwise provided by agreement between the parties or by law.\n\n\n3. Where the receipt of the notice of acceptance by the offeror is not a necessary condition for the conclusion of a transaction, such transaction shall be deemed to have been concluded in the place of residence or business of the acceptor, or the place in which the factual actions of the acceptor were performed.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.70. Procedure for the conclusion of transactions\n\n\n1. Natural persons shall conclude transactions themselves or through their agents. It shall not be allowed to conclude a transaction through an agent if, dependent on the nature of the transaction, it may be concluded only by the natural person himself; the same stands for any other transactions determined by laws.\n\n\n2. Transactions on behalf of legal persons shall be concluded by the bodies or agents indicated in their incorporation documents."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.71. Form of transactions\n\n\n1. Transactions shall be made in writing (in the ordinary or notarial form) or their conclusion may be implied by conduct.\n\n\n2. A transaction, in respect of which there is no specific form established by laws, shall be deemed to have been concluded if the person demonstrates by his behaviour the will to form a transaction (a contract formed by conduct).\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.72. Verbal form of transactions\n\n\n1. Where the written form is not required by laws or by agreement of the parties as a necessary condition for the conclusion of a transaction, the transaction may be concluded verbally.\n\n\n2. Transactions resulting from the performance of a written contract may be concluded verbally provided that this is not in conflict with laws or the contract."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.73. Written form of transactions\n\n\n1. The following must be made in the ordinary written form:\n\n\n1) transactions concluded by natural persons where, at the time of their conclusion, the value of the property upon which the transaction is concluded exceeds one thousand five hundred euros, except for such transactions which are performed at the time of their conclusion;\n\n\n2) transactions on the foundation of legal persons, except for transactions on the foundation of partnerships, which shall be made in the notarial form;\n\n\n3) contracts for the sale of goods-by instalments;\n\n\n4) insurance contracts;\n\n\n5) arbitration agreements;\n\n\n6) contracts for the lease of a movable thing for a term of over one year;\n\n\n7) preliminary contracts;\n\n\n8) contracts of life annuity (contracts of rent);\n\n\n9) compromise agreements;\n\n\n10) contracts for the sale of a motor vehicle;"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "10) contracts for the sale of a motor vehicle;\n\n\n11) other transactions for which the mandatory ordinary written form is prescribed by this Code or other laws.\n\n\n2. Written transactions shall be made either by drawing up one document signed by all the parties to the transaction or by the parties exchanging separate documents. Documents signed by the parties and transmitted by means of telecommunications terminal equipment shall be conferred the same power as having been made in the written form, provided that the protection of the text is guaranteed and the signature can be identified.\n\n\n3. The parties may agree to adopt additional requirements for the written form of the transaction (signatures of certain persons, affixation of a stamp on the document, assignment of a special form for the document, etc.) and provide for the legal effects of non-compliance with such requirements. Where the parties fail to comply with the established requirements, the transaction shall not be deemed concluded unless the parties agree otherwise."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.74. Notarised transactions\n\n\n1. The following transactions must be drawn up in the notarial form:\n\n\n1) transactions on the transfer of the real rights in an immovable thing and transactions on the encumbrance of the real rights and of the immovable thing, except for the transactions on the transfer of an immovable thing made in the course of the bankruptcy proceedings unless this Code provides otherwise;\n\n\n2) contracts of marriage (pre-nuptial and post-nuptial);\n\n\n3) contracts for the sale of private limited liability companies, where 25 per cent or more of the shares of a private limited liability company are sold or where the selling price of the shares exceeds EUR 14 500, except for the cases where management of personal securities accounts of the shareholders of the private limited liability company are transferred to the legal person entitled to open and manage personal accounts of financial instruments, or where the shares of a private limited liability company are sold upon conclusion of a privatisation transaction of shares held by the State or municipality by the right of ownership;\n\n\n4) other transactions which are to be notarised in accordance with the mandatory provisions of this Code."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.75. Legal registration of transactions"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. The law may establish mandatory legal registration of certain transactions. A transaction shall produce its effects between the parties even if it is not registered in the mandatory order. In such cases, the rights and duties of the parties do not arise from the registration of the transaction, but from the moment established by law or by agreement of the parties, except in cases where it is established by this Code that the rights and duties of the parties arise only from the moment of registration of the transaction concerned. \n\n\n2. The parties to an unregistered transaction may not invoke the fact of transaction against third persons and argue their rights against third persons by relying on other means of proof.\n\n\n3. If the same real rights or the same thing is acquired by several acquirers but only one of them registers that transaction, it shall be considered that the acquirer who has registered the transaction is vested with that thing or with the real rights in that thing. If none of the acquirers registers the transaction, it shall be considered that the acquirer who is the first to form that transaction is vested with the rights indicated above.\n\n\n4. If several persons register their property rights or real rights in the same thing, it shall be considered that the person who is the first to register that transaction is vested with these rights.\n\n\n5. Damage caused to persons by unlawful acts of the officials of state institutions or other organisations effectuating mandatory legal registration of transactions shall be compensated by the State."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.76. Signing of transactions drawn up in writing\n\n\n1. Transactions drawn up in writing must be signed by the contracting parties. Where a natural person, due to his physical defect, illness or any other reason, cannot sign the transaction himself, he may authorise another person to sign it on his behalf. The signature of the latter must be certified by a notary; or the head or a deputy head of the enterprise, institution or organisation where the person concerned is employed or studies; or by the head physician or a deputy head physician of the in-patient medical institution where the person concerned undergoes treatment; or by the commander of the military unit or a deputy commander thereof if the transaction is made by a soldier; or by the master of a ship during the period of a long voyage; in addition, the reason for which the person entering into the transaction is unable to sign it himself must be indicated.\n\n\n2. Where the transaction is made by employing telecommunications terminal equipment, in all cases there must be sufficient data for the verification of the parties to the transaction. Where such data are not available, in the event of a dispute, the parties may not rely upon witness evidence to prove the fact of the conclusion of the transaction."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.77. Conclusion of transactions in the form other than permitted by law\n\n\n1. Transactions which are permitted by laws to be concluded verbally may also be made in the ordinary written or notarial form.\n\n\n2. Transactions for the conclusion of which the ordinary written form is prescribed by law may also be drawn up in the notarial form.\n\n \n\n\nCHAPTER IV\n\nVOIDABILITY OF TRANSACTIONS\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.78. Null and voidable transactions\n\n\n1. If the nature of nullity is clearly indicated in the law, a transaction shall be presumed to be null, irrespective of the fact of existence of a court judgment upon its annulment. The parties may not ratify a transaction which is null and void.\n\n\n2. Any transaction for the declaration of voidability of which a court judgment is necessary shall be a voidable one.\n\n\n3. A transaction may be deemed to be null and void only on the grounds established by laws.\n\n\n4. An action for the voidability of a voidable transaction may be invoked only by the persons indicated in the laws.\n\n\n5. A claim to apply the legal effects arising from a transaction that is null and void may be invoked by any interested person. The legal effects of a null and void transaction, also the fact of its nullity shall be stated by the court ex officio (on its own motion)."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.79. Ratification of a voidable transaction\n\n\n1. A party possessing the right to invoke voidability of a transaction may ratify it within the time limit established by the other party or the laws. After ratifying the transaction, the party shall forfeit the right to claim voidability of that transaction.\n\n\n2. It shall be presumed that a transaction is ratified by the party if, after it became possible for the party to ratify or dispute it, any of the following have taken place:\n\n\n1) the transaction has been performed in whole or in part;\n\n\n2) a demand has been made against the other party for the performance of the transaction;\n\n\n3) a security for the performance of the obligation subject to ratification has been granted to the other party;\n\n\n4) the rights acquired under that transaction have been transferred to another person in whole or in part."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.80. Nullity of a transaction that is contrary to the requirements of mandatory statutory provisions\n\n\n1. Any transaction that fails to meet the requirements of mandatory statutory provisions shall be null and void.\n\n\n2. When a transaction is null and void, each party shall be bound to restore to the other party everything they have received under that transaction (restitution), and, where it is impossible to restore in kind the received, the parties shall be bound to compensate the received to each other in money unless the laws provide for other consequences of nullity of the transaction.\n\n\n3. The rules of restitution shall be established by Book Six of this Code.\n\n\n4. The property which was the subject of the transaction that has been declared null and void may not be claimed from the third person who has acquired the property in good faith, except in cases provided for in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Article 4.96 of this Code."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.81. Nullity of a transaction that is contrary to public order and good morals\n\n\n1. A transaction that is contrary to public order or good morals shall be null and void.\n\n\n2. Where a transaction is null and void on the grounds established in paragraph 1 of this Article, the rules provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 1.80 of this Code shall not apply if both parties knew or ought to have known that the transaction was contrary to public order or good morals.\n\n\n3. Unilateral or bilateral restitution may take place where its application is not contrary to the mandatory statutory provisions or good morals, i.e. where the purpose of the transaction contradicting public order or norms of good morals was not achieved, and the rules of public law do not establish any property sanctions in regard to the parties to such transaction."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. Transactions concluded by the management bodies of a private legal person in breach of their remit laid down in the incorporation documents or contradicting the goals of that legal person may be declared void only in the cases where the other party acted in bad faith, i.e. he was aware or ought to have been aware that the transaction was contrary to the goals of the legal person concerned. In such cases, the fact of announcement of the incorporation documents of the legal person concerned shall not be a sufficient proof of the other party\u2019s bad faith, therefore the legal person shall be bound to prove that the other party deliberately acted in bad faith (Article 2.74 and Articles 2.83 to 2.85 of this Code).\n\n\n2. Transactions concluded by public legal persons that are contrary to the goals of their activities may be declared void.\n\n\n3. An action for the declaration of voidness on the grounds established by this Article may be brought by the legal person, the founder(s) or a member(s) thereof. The laws may also specify other persons entitled to bring such an action, or special requirements which have to be met by the persons bringing such an action (e.g., holding of a certain number of shares (deciding votes)).\n\n\n4. Transactions indicated above shall be governed by the rules prescribed in paragraph 2 of Article 1.80 of this Code."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.83. Legal effects of a transaction concluded on behalf of a legal person that is not registered pursuant to the procedure established by laws or has no licence to engage in certain activities\n\n\n1. Where a transaction is concluded on behalf of a legal person that is not registered pursuant to the procedure established by laws, the natural person by whom such a transaction is concluded shall acquire the rights and assume the duties arising from that transaction, providing there are no other grounds for declaring such transaction void.\n\n\n2. Where transactions are concluded on behalf of a legal person prior to its registration, the persons by whom these transactions are concluded shall be jointly and severally liable unless the legal person, after it is registered, assumes the obligations resulting from those transactions (Article 2.61 of this Code)."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.84. Voidability of a transaction concluded by a legally incapable natural person\n\n\n1. A transaction shall be voidable if concluded by a minor under fourteen years of age, except in cases where the minor, within the limits imposed by his age and in accordance with this Code and other laws of the Republic of Lithuania, may enter into transactions independently to satisfy his ordinary and usual needs.\n\n\n2. A transaction shall be voidable if concluded by a natural person who, pursuant to the procedure established by law, has been declared legally incapable in a certain area due to his mental of behavioural disorder in that particular area.\n\n\n3. In the cases established in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, apart from the consequences provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 1.80 of this Code, the legally capable party shall be obliged to compensate the expenses incurred by the other party, also any damage to the latter\u2019s property or loss thereof if the capable party was aware or ought to have been aware of the incapacity of the other party in that area.\n\n\n4. The voidness of such transaction may be invoked by statutory representatives of the person incapable in a certain area as well as by a public prosecutor. Where a transaction is beneficial to the person incapable in a certain area, it may be ratified by the statutory representative of the latter in accordance with the procedure established by laws."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.85. Invalidation of transactions concluded without assistance by a natural person with limited legal capacity or by a natural person who requires assistance in exercising his decision-making capacity in a certain area\n\n\n1. A transaction concluded without the consent of the curator by a natural person, whose legal capacity is limited in a certain area due to his mental and behavioural disorder, may be declared null and void by a court upon the action of the curator or a public prosecutor.   \n\n\n2. A transaction concluded without assistance by a natural person who requires assistance in exercising his decision-making capacity in a certain area may be declared null and void on the grounds of the invalidity of transactions provided for in this Code upon the action of the person providing assistance or a public prosecutor.\n\n\n3. If a transaction indicated in the preceding paragraph of this Article is declared null and void, the provisions of paragraph 3 of Article 1.84 of this Code shall apply.\n\n\n4. A curator may also ratify the transaction after its conclusion if the transaction is beneficial to the person with limited legal capacity in a certain area."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.86. Nullity of a fictitious transaction\n\n\n1. A transaction made for the sake of appearance without intention to create legal effects shall not produce its effects between the parties and shall be null and void.\n\n\n2. The provisions established in paragraph 2 of Article 1.80 of this Code shall apply to the transactions specified above.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.87. Nullity of a simulated transaction\n\n\n1. Where a transaction is concluded to cover up another transaction, i.e. where the parties\u2019 intent to conclude a transaction is different from the simulated transaction, the rules applicable to the intended transaction shall apply.\n\n\n2. Where the rights or legitimate interests of third persons are violated by a simulated transaction, the third persons in defence of their rights may plead simulation against the parties of the simulated transaction.\n\n\n3. The fact of a simulated transaction may not be used as a defence by the contracting parties against third persons who in good faith have acquired rights from the simulated transaction."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.88. Declaring voidable a transaction made by a minor aged between fourteen and eighteen years old\n\n\n1. A transaction concluded by a minor aged between fourteen and eighteen years old without the consent of his parents or curators may be declared void in court on the action of such minor\u2019s parents or curators, with the exception of transactions which the minor may conclude independently in accordance with this Code and other laws of the Republic of Lithuania.\n\n\n2. Where the transaction specified in paragraph 1 of this Article is declared void, the provisions established in paragraph 3 of Article 1.84 of this Code shall apply.\n\n\n3. Statutory representatives of a minor can ratify the transaction that was concluded without a proper consent, by giving their consent after the transaction has been concluded, if the transaction is beneficial to the minor concerned."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.89. Declaring voidable a transaction concluded by a natural person who was unable to understand the meaning of his own actions\n\n\n1. A transaction concluded by a legally capable natural person may be annulled in court on the action of the natural person concerned if, by reason of his state at the moment of conclusion of the transaction, he was unable to understand the meaning of his acts or to control them.\n\n\n2. Where the transaction specified in paragraph 1 of this Article is declared void, besides the consequences established in paragraph 2 of Article 1.80 of this Code, the following additional consequences shall arise: the other party shall be bound to compensate to the party who, at the moment of the conclusion of the transaction, was unable to understand his own actions or to control them, the expenses incurred, also any damage to his property or loss thereof, if that other party was aware or ought to have been aware of the state of the first contracting party."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. A transaction resulting from the consent given by an essential mistake may be declared void in court on the person\u2019s whose consent is vitiated action for its voidness.\n\n\n2. A mistake shall be considered to be an erroneous assumption of the essential facts of the transaction that existed at the moment of the conclusion of the transaction.\n\n\n3. In the event of annulment of a transaction concluded under the influence of an essential mistake, the provisions established in paragraph 2 of Article 1.80 of this Code shall apply.  In addition, the party upon whose action the transaction is declared void shall have the right to claim from the other party compensation for the expenses incurred or the damage to his property or loss thereof if this party proves that the mistake was caused through the other party\u2019s fault. Where this is not proved, the party on whose action the transaction is declared void shall be bound to compensate to the other party the expenses incurred as well as the damage to his property or loss thereof.\n\n\n4. A mistake shall be essential where it relates to the nature, object or any other essential conditions of the transaction itself, or the civil legal status of the other contracting party or any other circumstances, and where a person of normal diligence and attentiveness would not have concluded a transaction in a similar situation or would have concluded it on essentially different terms if he had known the real state of events. A mistake shall likewise be considered essential where both contracting parties"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "or would have concluded it on essentially different terms if he had known the real state of events. A mistake shall likewise be considered essential where both contracting parties erred, or an error of one party induced the other party to err without the former\u2019s intention to deceive, or if one party was aware or ought to have been aware of the mistake made by the other party and the requirement addressed to the mistaken party to perform the transaction would contradict to the principles of good faith, justice and reasonableness.\n\n\n5. A mistake may not be considered essential if caused by gross negligence of the mistaken party, or induced by the circumstances, the risk of which was taken by the party upon himself or if, taking into account the concrete circumstances, the risk of mistake falls on that party in particular.\n\n\n6. A mistake resulting from the expression or transmission of a party\u2019s will shall be deemed to be a mistake committed by that party himself.\n\n\n7. The mistaken party shall not have the right to claim for the annulment of a contract where his rights and interests may be adequately protected by invoking other remedies."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. A transaction may be declared voidable by a court on the action of the aggrieved party if it was concluded by fraud, under duress, economic pressure or real threatening, or if it was concluded by the malicious agreement of the agent of one party with the other party, or if, by entering into the transaction by reason of abusive circumstances, one party assumed obligations under unfair conditions.  \n\n\n2. Where a transaction is declared voidable for any of the reasons specified in paragraph 1 of this Article, the other party shall be bound to restore to the aggrieved party everything he has obtained under that transaction, and, where it is impossible to restore (in kind), to compensate for its value in money In addition, the guilty party shall be bound to compensate to the aggrieved person all the expenses incurred.\n\n\n3. Where a transaction is declared voidable by reason of fraud, violence, economic pressure, real threatening or the malicious agreement made between the agent of one party and the other party, the aggrieved party may, in addition to remedies provided for in the preceding paragraph of this Article, claim non-pecuniary damage caused by the actions indicated.\n\n\n4. For the purposes of this Article, the term \u2018real threatening\u2019 shall mean unjustifiable or unlawful actions of the other party or a third person directed towards the person, property or reputation of the other contracting party, or that of his parents, children, spouse, grandparents, grandchildren"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "a third person directed towards the person, property or reputation of the other contracting party, or that of his parents, children, spouse, grandparents, grandchildren or any other close relatives; the threatening actions must be of such nature as to impress a reasonable person and to cause him fear that the person, property or reputation of the persons concerned may be exposed to damage and there is no other reasonable alternative except to enter into the transaction. Threatening shall also be deemed to be real where one party or a third person threatens to enforce measures of economic pressure against the other contracting party that is economically weaker or is in essence economically dependent in order to compel him to conclude a transaction under exceptionally economically disadvantageous conditions.  In determining the occurrence of real threatening, the court must take into account the age, economic and financial position, and the gender of the party towards whom the threat was directed, the nature of the threat, and any other conditions significant for the case.\n\n\n5. In addition to the forms specified in the preceding paragraph of this Article, fraud may result from the silence of a party, i.e. from concealment of such circumstances being aware of which the other contracting party would not have formed the transaction and which, within the principles of reasonableness, justice and good faith, had to be disclosed to the other party; fraud may also result from active actions aimed at misleading the other contracting party as to the effect of the transaction, essential terms thereof, civil legal capacity of the person who"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "result from active actions aimed at misleading the other contracting party as to the effect of the transaction, essential terms thereof, civil legal capacity of the person who enters into the transaction, and any other essential circumstances.\n\n\n6. If a third person, but not the other party to the transaction is guilty of fraud, duress or threatening, the transaction shall be declared voidable only in the cases where that other party was aware or ought to have been aware of those facts.\n\n\n7. The fact of declaring voidable a transaction concluded under the influence of fraud may not be invoked against third persons in good faith, except in cases established by this Code."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. Failure to conclude a transaction in the form established by law shall render the transaction void only in the case where such consequence is expressly prescribed by law.\n\n\n2. Where any dispute arises upon the fact of conclusion or performance of a transaction which fails to meet the necessary requirements for its ordinary written form, the parties shall lose the right to use testimony of witnesses as evidence to prove the facts indicated above; in the cases expressly prescribed by law, failure to adhere to the ordinary written form obligatory to a concrete kind of transaction shall result in the nullity of such transaction.\n\n\n3. Failure to adhere to the notarial form required by law as a necessary condition of a transaction shall result in the nullity of the transaction.\n\n\n4. Where one party in whole or in part performs his obligations arising from a transaction that must be notarised while the other party avoids the notarisation thereof, the court may, at the request of the party who has performed his obligations, declare such transaction valid. In such event, a subsequent notarisation of the transaction shall not be required.\n\n\n5. Where nullity of a transaction results from the lack of necessary requisites of its form as established by laws, the consequences provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 1.80 of this Code shall arise.\n\n\n6. A court may refrain from applying the provisions established in paragraph 2 of this Article where they contradict the principles of good faith, justice and reasonableness,"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) there exists other written evidence, even though indirect, that proves the conclusion of the transaction;\n\n\n2) written evidence to prove the fact of the conclusion of the transaction has been lost not through the fault of the party;\n\n\n3) taking into consideration the circumstances in which the transaction was concluded, it was objectively impossible to conclude that transaction in writing;\n\n\n4) taking into consideration the interrelations between the parties, the nature of the transaction, and other circumstances of importance to the proceedings, prohibition to invoke testimonies of witnesses would contradict the principles of good faith, justice and reasonableness."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.94. Legal effects of failure to adhere to the requirement to perform legal registration of a transaction\n\nFailure to adhere to the requirement established by laws to perform legal registration of a transaction shall not result in the nullity of the transaction, except in the cases prescribed by this Code.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.95. Moment from which the effect of annulment arises\n\n\n1. A transaction which has been annulled shall be deemed to be null and void ab initio (from the moment of its conclusion).\n\n\n2. Where, based on the content of a transaction, it is impossible to declare such transaction void ab initio, it may be declared void only for the future, i.e. from the time when the judgment becomes final.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.96. Consequences of partial nullity of a transaction\n\nPartial nullity of a transaction shall not import the nullity of the entire transaction where it can be supposed that the contracting parties would have entered into that transaction even without the part affected by nullity having been included.\n\n \n\n\nPART III\n\nOBJECTS OF CIVIL RIGHTS\n\n \n\n\nCHAPTER V\n\nCONCEPT AND KINDS OF OBJECTS OF CIVIL RIGHTS"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "CHAPTER V\n\nCONCEPT AND KINDS OF OBJECTS OF CIVIL RIGHTS\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.97. Kinds of objects of civil rights\n\n\n1. Objects of civil rights shall be things, money and securities, other property and property rights, results of intellectual activities, information, actions and results thereof, as well as any other material and non-material values.\n\n\n2. Things and property the turnover of which is restricted may be considered to be objects of civil rights only in the cases established by laws. Things which are withdrawn from civil use or the turnover of which is restricted must be expressly prescribed by laws. Otherwise, the civil turnover of things or property shall not be considered restricted."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.98. Things as object of civil rights\n\n\n1. Things as object of civil rights shall be divided into movables and immovables.\n\n\n2. Land and other things which are connected with land and which cannot be moved from one place to another without a change of their purpose and essential reduction of their value shall be immovables (buildings, equipment, perennial plants and other things which, according to their purpose and nature, are deemed to be immovable).\n\n\n3. Ships and aircraft, the mandatory legal registration for which is established by laws, shall also be considered to be immovables. Any other property may also be attributed to immovables by laws.\n\n\n4. Things which can be moved from one place to another without a change of their purpose and essential reduction of their value shall be considered to be movables unless otherwise provided for by laws.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.99. Kinds of things as objects of civil rights\n\n\n1. Things as objects of civil rights shall be divided into things determined by their individual features and things determined by their specific properties.\n\n\n2. Things shall also be categorised as divisible and indivisible, consumable and durable, principals and accessories."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.101. Securities\n\nA security, as an object of civil rights, shall be a document certifying the obligation of its issuer to the holder of this document. A security may confirm the right of the person in possession of the document (holder) to receive from the issuer interest, dividends, part of the assets of an enterprise in liquidation, or the funds lent to the issuer (shares, bonds, etc.); the right or obligation to acquire or alienate other securities, whether for payment or gratuitously, (subscription rights, futures, options, convertible bonds, etc.); the right to some income or payment obligation subsequent to a change of prices on the security market (index, etc.). A security shall also be a document by which a direct order is issued to a bank to pay a certain sum of money (cheques) or which certifies an obligation to pay a certain sum of money to the person whose name is indicated in the document (bill of exchange); or which proves the right of ownership to merchandise (mercantile securities); likewise a document which certifies the right or an obligation to acquire or alienate mercantile securities (derivative mercantile securities). Uncertificated securities shall be issued in the cases established by laws and indicated (consolidated) in a special security register. \n\n\n2. The laws may also provide for other types of securities. For the purposes of protecting"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "in a special security register. \n\n\n2. The laws may also provide for other types of securities. For the purposes of protecting the rights of investors, as well as for supervising and regulating the capital market, the laws may provide for a different definition of securities (investment) to be employed in the laws which regulate these relationships. Unless provided otherwise, the provisions of this Code and the definition of securities shall apply to investment (investment securities) if the documents certifying the investment possess the features specified in paragraphs 1 and 3 of this Article.\n\n\n3. The right certified by a security may be alienated to another person only where the security itself is alienated unless otherwise provided for by laws. Securities may be alienated in accordance with the laws, the ordinary practice or by custom freely and unrestrictedly. Securities shall be alienated by transfer, though it ought to be certified by means of making an inscription of transfer of the security \u2013 an endorsement.\n\n\n4. Securities may be underlying or derivative. Underlying securities shall confirm their holders\u2019 rights and duties specified in paragraph 1 of this Article, with the exception of the right or duty to acquire or alienate, for payment or gratuitously, other securities, as well as the right to receive certain income or the duty to pay a certain sum of money subsequent to a change of prices on the security market. The securities which certify these exclusive rights or duties shall be called derivative securities.\n\n\n5. Securities shall be divided into"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "prices on the security market. The securities which certify these exclusive rights or duties shall be called derivative securities.\n\n\n5. Securities shall be divided into registered, bearer or order securities. They shall also be divided into monetary, equity and mercantile securities.\n\n\n6. A monetary security shall grant the right to receive a certain sum of money indicated therein (cheque, bill of exchange, bond).\n\n\n7. An equity security shall grant the right to participate in the management of an enterprise, confirm the holding of the enterprise\u2019s capital and entitle to receive a part of its profits (shares and certificates of shares, etc.), except in the cases provided for by laws.\n\n\n8. A mercantile security shall grant the right of ownership to merchandise, also the right to receive merchandise (bill of lading, way-bill, etc.).\n\n\n9. Securities must contain the requisites provided for by laws. The absence of obligatory requisites of a security shall render it null, except in the cases established by laws."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "10. Upon the issuance of uncertificated securities, where the laws do not provide otherwise, it shall be considered pursuant to this Code that the holder of the securities has entrusted the person keeping the accounts with the safekeeping of the securities under the custody contract. The rights, obligations and liability of the keeper shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of Book Six of this Code applicable to the custody contract. Where accounts are kept by several persons on different levels, it shall be considered that the person who keeps the accounts of the holder of the security has transferred the safekeeping of the securities concerned to another person under the deposit contract. Such securities shall be alienated by the relevant entries in the securities accounts."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.102. Share\n\n\n1. A share shall be a security certifying the right of its holder (shareholder) to participate in the management of an enterprise and, where the laws do not provide otherwise, to receive a part of the enterprise profits in the form of dividend and a part of the remaining property of the enterprise in case of its liquidation, as well as certifying other rights established by laws.\n\n\n2. Shares may be of the following classes: registered or bearer, ordinary or preference, certificated or uncertificated.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.103. Bond\n\nA bond shall be a security certifying the right of its holder to receive from the person who issues the bond the nominal value of the bond, annual interest or any other equivalent, or other property rights within the time limits prescribed in it.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.104. Cheque\n\nA cheque, as a security, shall be an unconditional order drawn up in a certain manner that is addressed by the drawer to a bank to pay a certain sum in money to the holder of the cheque."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.106. Bill of lading\n\n\n1. A bill of lading, as a security, shall be a document certifying the fact of conclusion of a contract and its holder\u2019s right to receive from the carrier the goods specified therein (cargo) and the right to dispose of the goods (cargo) received.\n\n\n2. A bill of lading may be bearer, order or straight. If a bill of lading is drawn up in several copies, after the shipment is delivered under any of the copies of the bill of lading presented first, the other copies thereof shall lose their legal power.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.107. Certificates of deposit\n\n\n1. A certificate of deposit shall be a written bank document containing a statement on the deposit of funds and granting the depositor the right to receive the deposit and interest upon maturity.\n\n\n2. A certificate of deposit may be registered, transferable or non-transferable.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.108. State debt obligation\n\nA state debt obligation shall be a security payable to the bearer which certifies that its holder has lent a certain sum in money to the State and grants its holder the right to receive the sum indicated therein and interest established thereby during the holding period of this security."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) information which is confidential but which does not have the characteristics of a commercial secret;\n\n\n2) information which is indicated as confidential by its holder but which is obvious (widely known), publicly available or easily obtainable in an environment where such information is normally handled;\n\n\n3) information which, under normal working circumstances, becomes part of experience, skills, competences or knowledge acquired by employees in good faith;\n\n\n4) information about the prices of services and goods as well as operating costs of entities providing services of public interest;\n\n\n5) other information established by laws.\n\n\n3. Protection of commercial secrets against unlawful acquisition, use and disclosure shall be established by law.\n\n\n4. Information shall be considered to be a professional secret if, according to laws or under an agreement, it must be safeguarded by persons of certain professions (lawyers, doctors, auditors, etc.). This information is received by the indicated persons in performance of their duties provided for by laws or contracts. The cases, where the information received in exercise of professional rights and in performance of professional duties are not considered professional secret, shall be established by laws.  Damage resulting from unlawful disclosure of a professional secret shall be compensated on general grounds established by this Code."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "PART IV\n\nTIME LIMITS\n\n \n\n\nCHAPTER VI\n\nGENERAL PROVISIONS\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.117. Definition of a time limit\n\n\n1. A time limit shall mean a period of time determined by laws or a transaction or established by a judicial authority and fixed by a calendar date or by the termination of a period expressed in years, months, weeks, days or hours.\n\n\n2. A time limit may also be defined by indicating an event that must inevitably occur.\n\n\n3. Time limits may be restoratory, acquisitionary or resolutory.\n\n\n4. A restoratory time limit shall mean a period which may be restored by the court after its expiration, providing it was exceeded due to substantial reasons.\n\n\n5. An acquisitionary time limit shall mean a period after the expiration of which a certain civil right or duty is acquired.\n\n\n6. A resolutory time limit shall mean a period after the expiration of which a certain civil right or duty expires. The resolutory time limits may not be restored by a court or arbitration."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.118. Commencement of a time limit\n\n\n1. A time limit shall start at the beginning of the first hour of the day following the calendar date or an event defining the beginning of the time limit unless the laws provide otherwise.\n\n\n2. A time limit that is expressed in hours shall begin from the moment defined by the party or both parties or by law.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.119. Expiration of a time limit expressed in years and months\n\n\n1. A time limit expressed in years shall expire on the last hour of the corresponding day and month of the last year of the time limit.\n\n\n2. A time limit expressed in months shall expire on the last hour of the corresponding day of the last month of the time limit.\n\n\n3. Where in the time limit expressed in years or months there is no corresponding day in the last month, the time limit shall expire day on the last day of that month.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.120. Expiration of a time limit expressed in weeks\n\nA time limit expressed in weeks shall expire on the last hour of the corresponding day of the last week of the time limit."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.121. Inclusion of official holidays and non-working days\n\n\n1. Official holidays and non-working days (Saturdays and Sundays) shall be included when calculating a time limit.\n\n\n2. Where the last day of the time limit falls on a non-working day or an official holiday, the next working day thereafter shall be considered as the last day of the time limit.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.122. Performance of actions on the last day of the time limit\n\n\n1. An action for the performance of which a time limit is set must be performed before the expiry of the last hour of the last day of the time limit. However, where an action is to be performed in an organisation, the time limit shall expire by the end of the office hours set by the organisation in question.\n\n\n2. Any written applications and notifications delivered to the post, or transmitted by means of communication before the expiry of the last hour of the last day of the time limit shall be considered to have been performed on time."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.123. Legal significance of a time limit\n\n\n1. Where the emergence of a duty is dependent on the expiration of a certain time limit, the performance of the duty may not be demanded before the expiry of that time limit.\n\n\n2. Where certain legal effects of a transaction are dependent on the expiration of a time limit, the transaction or obligation shall terminate with the expiry of the time limit.\n\n\n3. It shall be presumed that a time limit takes effect in favour of a debtor except in the cases where:\n\n\n1) bankruptcy proceedings are initiated against the debtor;\n\n\n2) the debtor destroys the security for the performance of an obligation;\n\n\n3) the debtor fails to provide the security for the performance of an obligation he was bound to provide.\n\n \n\n\nCHAPTER VII\n\nPRESCRIPTION\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.124. Concept of prescription\n\nPrescription shall be a time period established by laws during which a person can defend his violated rights by bringing an action."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.125. Time limits of prescription\n\n\n1. General prescription shall comprise a period of ten years.\n\n\n2. In respect of concrete kinds of claims, abridged prescription shall be established by this Code and other laws of the Republic of Lithuania.\n\n\n3. Abridged one-month prescription shall apply to claims arising from the results of tender.\n\n\n4. Abridged three-month prescription shall apply in respect of claims for declaring voidable the decisions of the bodies of a legal person.\n\n\n5. Abridged six-month prescription shall apply in respect of actions for recovery of default penalties (fines, late payment interest).\n\n\n6. Abridged six-month prescription shall apply in respect of claims arising from the relationships between communication enterprises and their clients regarding consignments sent within the territory of Lithuania, and one-year prescription shall apply where consignments were sent abroad.\n\n\n7. Abridged one-year prescription shall apply in respect of claims arising from the legal relationships of insurance.\n\n\n8. Abridged two-year prescription shall apply in respect of claims arising from defects in/inadequate quality of goods, services or digital content.\n\n\n9. Abridged three-year prescription shall apply in respect of claims for compensation of damage, including claims for compensation of damage caused by products of inadequate quality."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "10. Abridged five-year prescription shall apply in respect of claims for  recovery of interest and other periodical payments.\n\n\n11. The abridged prescription established in Book Six of this Code shall apply in respect of claims arising from defects in the work performed.\n\n\n12. Claims arising from contracts for the transportation of goods, passengers or baggage shall be subject to prescription established in the codes/laws regulating individual modes of transport.\n\n\n13. Any agreement of the parties with an intention to modify the time limits of prescription and calculation thereof shall be prohibited."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.126. Application of prescription\n\n\n1. A claim to protect a violated right shall be accepted by the court irrespective of the expiry of prescription.\n\n\n2. The expiration of prescription shall be effected by the court exclusively if invoked by a party to the dispute.\n\n\n3. Prescription may not be renounced in advance."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.127. Commencement of prescription\n\n\n1. Prescription shall commence from the day on which the right to bring an action arises. The right to bring an action shall arise from the day on which a person became aware or ought to have become aware of the violation of his right. Exceptions to this rule shall be established by this Code and other laws of the Republic of Lithuania.\n\n\n2. Where a time limit for the performance of an obligation is established, prescription of a claim arising from such obligation shall commence upon the expiry of the time limit allocated for the performance of that obligation.\n\n\n3. Where a time limit for the performance of an obligation is not established, prescription shall run from the moment when a claim to perform the obligation is brought.\n\n\n4. Prescription of claims arising from regressive obligations shall run from the moment when the principal obligation is performed.\n\n\n5. In the event of continuous infringement, i.e. it happens every day (a person fails to perform the actions he is bound to perform, or performs the actions he has no right to perform, or fails to discontinue any other violation), prescription for actions concerning acts or omissions that occurred on a concrete day shall run from that every day."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) an extraordinary event that cannot be prevented under the circumstances (force majeure) hinders bringing of an action;\n\n\n2) the Government imposes a postponement of the performance of obligations (moratorium);\n\n\n3) the plaintiff or defendant serves in a unit of the armed forces of the Republic of Lithuania in which martial law is declared;\n\n\n4) no guardian or curator is appointed to a person legally incapable in a certain area or to a person whose legal capacity is limited in a certain area;\n\n\n5) the parties to an obligation are spouses;\n\n\n6) the parties to an obligation are a guardian and the person under guardianship, or a curator and the person under curatorship;\n\n\n7) the parties to an obligation are parents and their minor children;\n\n\n8) the effect of the law or any other legal act regulating relationships of the dispute is suspended.\n\n\n2. The run of prescription shall be suspended only where the circumstances indicated in paragraph 1 of this Article occurred or continued to exist during the last six months of the prescription; where the time limit of prescription is shorter than six months, the run of prescription shall be suspended if the circumstances indicated in paragraph 1 of this Article occurred or continued to exist during the whole period of the time limit of the prescription.\n\n\n3. Suspended prescription shall resume its run from the day when the circumstance which gave rise to such suspension ceases to exist. In that event, the"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Suspended prescription shall resume its run from the day when the circumstance which gave rise to such suspension ceases to exist. In that event, the remaining part of the time limit shall be extended to six months; where the time limit of prescription is shorter than six months, it shall be extended to the full time limit of the prescription."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.130. Interruption of prescription\n\n\n1. Prescription shall be interrupted by bringing an action in accordance with the procedure established by laws.\n\n\n2. Prescription shall also be interrupted by actions of a debtor by which the debtor acknowledges his obligation to the creditor.\n\n\n3. An interrupted time limit of prescription shall be resumed from the moment when the circumstance which gave rise to such interruption ceases to exist. An interruption of prescription resulting from bringing an action shall be resumed from the date of entry into force of the court judgment, provided that an identical claim may be forwarded from the disputed legal relationship. The period preceding the interruption of prescription shall not be included in the duration of the new time limit of prescription.\n\n\n4. No interruption in the time limit of prescription shall occur where the action is discontinued by the court due to the fault of the plaintiff. Refusal to accept the action or its withdrawal by the plaintiff shall likewise have no effect of interrupting prescription.\n\n\n5. If an action brought in criminal proceedings is discontinued, prescription that commenced before this action was brought shall continue its run from the date of entry into force of the judgment by which the action was discontinued."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.131. Legal effects of the expiration of a time limit of prescription\n\n\n1. The expiration of a time limit of prescription prior to the date of bringing an action shall serve as valid grounds for dismissal of the action.\n\n\n2. Where the court acknowledges the time limit of prescription as expired due to important reasons, the violated right must be protected and the expired time limit of prescription restored.\n\n\n3. Issues of the ownership of property for revindication of which prescription has expired shall be regulated by the provisions of Book Four of this Code.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.132. Suspension, interruption and restoration of abridged prescription\n\nThe provisions regulating the suspension, interruption and restoration of prescription (Articles 1.129 to 1.131 of this Code) shall likewise apply in respect of abridged prescription, except in cases where laws provide otherwise.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.133. Consequences arising when a debtor performs an obligation after the expiration of a time limit of prescription\n\nWhere a debtor performs his obligation after the expiration of the time limit of prescription, he shall have no right to claim restitution even if at the time of performance of his obligation he did not know that the time limit of prescription had expired."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.134. Claims not subject to prescription\n\nThe following claims shall not be subject to prescription:\n\n\n1) claims arising from the violation of personal non-property rights, except in cases established by laws;\n\n\n2) claims of depositors for repayment of deposits placed with a bank or any other credit institution;\n\n\n3) claims for compensation for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage resulting from the crimes specified in paragraph 8 of Article 95 of the Criminal Code;\n\n\n4) other claims in cases established by other laws.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.135. Application of prescription with respect to accessory claims\n\nThe prescription period with respect to accessory claims (penalty, pledge, suretyship, etc.) shall expire upon the expiration of the prescription with respect to the principal claim, even though the prescription period of the former was not due to expire.\n\n \n\n\nPART V\n\nEXERCISE AND PROTECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS\n\n \n\n\nCHAPTER VIII\n\nPRINCIPLES OF EXERCISE OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND WAYS OF THEIR PROTECTION"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "CHAPTER VIII\n\nPRINCIPLES OF EXERCISE OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND WAYS OF THEIR PROTECTION\n\n \n\n\nArticle 1.136. Grounds giving rise to civil rights and duties\n\n\n1. Civil rights and duties shall arise on the grounds established by this Code and other laws, also from actions performed by natural persons and organisations which, although not provided for by laws, create civil rights and duties within the general principles and meaning of civil laws.\n\n\n2. Pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Article, civil rights and duties shall arise:\n\n\n1) from contracts and other transactions provided for by this Code and other laws, as well as from transactions which are not provided for by laws but do not conflict with these laws;\n\n\n2) from court judgments;\n\n\n3) from administrative acts that cause civil legal effects;\n\n\n4) from the results of intellectual activities;\n\n\n5) on the grounds of damage, as well as on the grounds of the reception of property not due or of unjust enrichment;\n\n\n6) on the grounds of events or actions (acts or omissions) to which the arising of civil legal effects is linked by laws."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. Persons shall freely enjoy civil rights at their own discretion, including the right of defence.\n\n\n2. In exercising their rights and discharging their duties, persons must obey the law, respect the rules of collective life and the principles of good morals, and act in good faith and in accordance with the principles of reasonableness and justice.\n\n\n3. A person shall be forbidden from abusing his rights, i.e. there being no legal ground, no civil rights may be exercised in a manner or by means intended to violate other persons\u2019 rights and interests protected by laws; or to restrict other persons in their rights and interests protected by laws; or with the intent of doing damage to other persons; or where this would be contrary to the purpose of a subjective right. Abuse of rights that causes damage to other persons shall be the grounds for imposing civil liability. A court may refuse to protect the subjective right which the person abuses.\n\n\n4. Civil rights may not be exercised in bad faith and with the intent of unlawfully restricting competition or in abuse of a dominant market position.\n\n\n5. Civil rights shall be protected by laws, except in cases where the exercise of these rights is inconsistent with their purpose, public order, good usages (bonos mores) or the principles of public morals.\n\n\n6. A renouncement of exercise of a subjective civil right shall not abolish the subjective civil right, except in cases established by laws."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.138. Protection of civil rights\n\nCivil rights shall be protected by the court, acting within its remit and according to the procedure established by laws. The ways of protecting civil rights shall be the following:\n\n\n1) acknowledgement of rights;\n\n\n2) restoration of the situation that existed before the right was violated;\n\n\n3) prevention of unlawful actions or prohibition to perform actions that pose a reasonable threat of the occurrence of damage (preventive action);\n\n\n4) a judgment to perform an obligation in kind;\n\n\n5) interruption or modification of a legal relationship;\n\n\n6) recovery of pecuniary or non-pecuniary damage from the person who infringes the law and, in cases established by the law or contract, recovery of penalties (fine, default interest);\n\n\n7) declaration as voidable of unlawful acts of state or municipal institutions or the officials thereof in the cases established in paragraph 4 of Article 1.3 of this Code;\n\n\n8) other ways provided for by laws."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 1.139. Self-defence\n\n\n1. Self-defence may be exercised for the purposes of protecting one\u2019s civil rights only in cases established by this Code.\n\n\n2. Methods and means of self-defence must correspond to the nature of the unlawful act and cannot, on a case-by-case basis, exceed the limits of self-defence.\n\n\n3. In exercising self-defence, the rights and freedoms of individuals must be respected, and legal requirements must be observed.\n\n\n \n\n\nBOOK TWO\n\nPERSONS\n\n \n\n\nPART I\n\nNATURAL PERSONS\n\n \n\n\nCHAPTER I\n\nPASSIVE AND ACTIVE CIVIL CAPACITY OF NATURAL PERSONS\n\n \n\n\nSECTION ONE\n\nPASSIVE CAPACITY\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.1. Concept of passive civil capacity of natural persons\n\nEvery natural person shall fully enjoy his civil rights and obligations (passive civil capacity)."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.2. Beginning and end of passive civil capacity of natural persons\n\n\n1. Passive civil capacity of a natural person shall begin at the moment of his birth and shall end at the moment of his death.\n\n\n2. The beginning of rights prescribed by law to a conceived but yet unborn child shall depend on the act of its birth.\n\n\n3. Where it is impossible to establish whether a child was born alive or dead, it shall be presumed that it was born alive.\n\n\n4. Where certain ensuing legal consequences depend on the fact which of natural persons died at an earlier date and where it is impossible to establish the moment of death of each of them, it shall be presumed that the said natural persons died at the same time.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.3. Moment of birth and death of natural persons\n\n\n1. The first independent breath shall be considered to be the moment of birth of a natural person.\n\n\n2. Irreversible cessation of blood circulation and breathing or complete and irreversible cessation of all functions of the brain shall be considered to be the moment of death of a natural person.\n\n\n3. Criteria for declaring the moment of birth or death shall be prescribed by law."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.4. Content of passive civil capacity of natural persons\n\n\n1. According to law, natural persons shall be entitled to property as the object of private ownership and shall enjoy the right to engage in economic and commercial activities, establish enterprises or other legal entities, inherit property and bequeath it, choose a sphere of activities and a place of residence, to have copyright of an invention or an industrial sample as well as other property and individual non-property rights, which are protected by the civil law.\n\n\n2. Natural persons who, in accordance with the procedure established by  laws, are engaged in economic and commercial activities shall be considered to be traders.\n\n\n3. Every person engaged in business or profession must administer his property and everything related to his business or profession as well as retain documents and other information about his property, business or profession in the manner which would enable every person having a legal interest to receive, at any time, comprehensive information about the property rights and obligations of the person in question.\n\n \n\n\nSECTION TWO\n\nACTIVE CAPACITY"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. Transactions on behalf and in the name of minors under fourteen years of age shall be concluded by their parents or guardians.\n\n\n2. Upon entering into transactions and conducting them, parents or guardians must act solely in the interests of the minor. The rights and obligations of parents and guardians in administering the property of minors shall be laid down in the provisions of Book Three of this Code.\n\n\n3. Minors under fourteen years of age shall have the right to independently enter into transactions to meet their ordinary and usual needs, conclude transactions aimed at gratuitous personal gain, as well as transactions related to the use of their own earnings or funds provided by their legal representatives or other persons where the said transactions are not subject to a prescribed notarial or any other specific form.  \n\n\n4. Liability of legal representatives for contractual obligations of minors, who are under fourteen years of age, shall be prescribed by law if they fail to prove that the said obligations were breached through no fault of their own.\n\n\n5. Where a transaction concluded by a minor under fourteen years of age is not declared null and void and where the said person becomes legally capable, the other party to the transaction may apply in writing to the party to the transaction who has become legally capable and request to approve the transaction within the set time limit, which may not be shorter than one month. Where the person fails to notify about his refusal to approve the transaction within the set time limit, he shall be deemed"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.8. Active civil capacity of minors over fourteen and under eighteen years of age \n\n\n1. Minors over fourteen and under eighteen years of age shall enter into transactions upon the consent of parents or curators. The form of consent must correspond to the form of the transaction concluded. Transactions concluded without the consent of legal representatives shall be deemed valid where the consent of the legal representative is given after the transaction has been concluded.\n\n\n2. Apart from the rights laid down in paragraph 3 of Article 2.7 of this Code, minors over fourteen but under eighteen years of age shall have the right to independently dispose of their income and property acquired for that income, exercise copyright to their works, inventions and industrial design as well as to enter into transactions to meet their ordinary and usual needs.\n\n\n3. Where there are sufficient grounds, the court may, on an application filed by a child guardianship/curatorship institution or other interested persons, impose restrictions on or divest minors who are over fourteen but under eighteen years of age of the right to independently dispose of their income and property.\n\n\n4. The right of minors over fourteen but under eighteen years of age to place deposits with credit institutions and dispose of them shall be prescribed by law.\n\n\n5. Minors over fourteen but under eighteen years of age shall be liable for their own contractual obligations."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.9. Emancipation of minors\n\n\n1. Once the minor has reached the age of sixteen, the court may emancipate him on the application of his parents, institutions of guardianship/curatorship, his curator or the minor himself where there are sufficient grounds to allow him to exercise all civil rights and discharge his obligations independently.   In all cases, the minor\u2019s own consent shall be required for the minor to be emancipated.\n\n\n2. The court may annul the minor\u2019s emancipation on the application of his parents, curator or institutions of guardianship/curatorship in the event that, in exercising his rights and discharging his obligations, the minor causes damage to his own or other persons\u2019 rights or legitimate interests.\n\n \n\n\nSECTION THREE\n\nDECLARATION OF LEGAL INCAPACITY OR LIMITATION OF LEGAL CAPACITY OF A NATURAL PERSON"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. A natural person who, as a result of mental and behavioural disorder, is not able to understand the meaning of his actions in a certain area or control them, may be, by the court, declared legally incapable in that particular area.    The person legally incapable in that particular area shall be placed under guardianship in regard to this area.\n\n\n2. The court judgment shall include an exhaustive list of areas in which a person is declared legally incapable. Transactions on behalf of the person who is declared legally incapable in a certain area shall be concluded by his guardian. The rights and obligations of a guardian shall be laid down in the provisions of Book Three of this Code.\n\n\n3. Where a person who is declared legally incapable in a certain area recovers from his illness or the state of his health improves considerably, the court shall declare him as having legal capacity in that area. After the court judgment becomes res judicata, the guardianship of the said person in regard to this area shall be revoked.\n\n\n4. The spouse of a person, his parents, adult children, an institutions of guardianship/curatorship or a public prosecutor shall have the right to file an application for the declaration of the person\u2019s legal incapacity in a certain area. They shall also have the right to apply to court requesting the declaration of the person\u2019s full legal capacity or legal capacity in the area in which the person has been declared legally incapable. In"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "court requesting the declaration of the person\u2019s full legal capacity or legal capacity in the area in which the person has been declared legally incapable. In the cases provided for in Article 2.101 of this Code, the Legal Capacity Review Commission shall also have the right to apply to court requesting the declaration of the person\u2019s full legal capacity or legal capacity in the area in which the person has been declared legally incapable. A natural person who is declared legally incapable shall also have the right to apply, not more than once a year, to court requesting the declaration of his full legal capacity or legal capacity in the area in which he has been declared legally incapable. The one-year period shall start to run from the date of entry into force of a court judgment declaring the person legally incapable in a certain area. Subsequent one-year periods shall start to run from the date of entry into force of the last court judgment on the person\u2019s legal capacity.\n\n\n5. A person declared legally incapable in a certain area shall bear the legal consequences of incapacity, as laid down in legal acts, in that particular area only."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. Each municipality must set up or have a functioning Legal Capacity Review Commission (hereinafter: the \u2018Commission\u2019). The Commission shall review the condition of a person legally incapable in a certain area and decide on the expediency to apply to court requesting the review of the judgment whereby a person was declared legally incapable in a certain area. Taking into consideration the number of persons with legal incapacity in a certain area who live in the territory of a municipality, one municipality may set up several Commissions or several municipalities may set up a single Commission. Model rules of procedure of Legal Capacity Review Commissions shall be approved by the Government.\n\n\n2. The Commission shall act on its own initiative to review the condition of a legally incapable person where, within one year from the date of entry into force of a court judgment declaring a person legally incapable in a certain area, persons referred to in paragraph 4 of Article 2.10 of this Code or a person declared legally incapable in a certain area fail to apply to court requesting the annulment of the court judgment declaring the person legally incapable. The condition of a person legally incapable in a certain area shall be reviewed by the Commission, which is set up or functions in the municipality of residence of the person legally incapable in a certain area.\n\n\n3. In its work, the Commission shall be guided by the principles of impartiality and independence, the principle of the least possible limitation of legal capacity, the principle of personalisation of measures"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "shall be guided by the principles of impartiality and independence, the principle of the least possible limitation of legal capacity, the principle of personalisation of measures limiting legal capacity and the principle of justification. When reviewing the condition of a legally incapable person, the Commission must hear the opinion of the person legally incapable in a certain area, except in exceptional cases where it is objectively not possible to do so. Where the Commission has doubts as to whether it is purposeful to apply to court, all doubts must be resolved in favour of a person declared legally incapable in a certain area.\n\n\n4. The Commission comprising five members shall be set up by a decision of the municipal council. Where establishment of a single Commission for several municipalities is decided upon, the decision thereto shall be subject to approval by the council of each of the municipalities in which the Commission is to function. Where two of the five members of the Commission decide that it is purposeful to apply to the court which adopted a judgment declaring a person legally incapable in a certain area and request the review of the judgment, the Commission shall be deemed to have adopted the decision to apply to court. Decisions adopted by the Commission shall not affect the right of persons referred to in paragraph 4 of Article 2.10 of this Code or the right of a person declared legally incapable in a certain area to apply to court requesting the declaration of the person\u2019s legal capacity.\n\n\n5. The work of the Commission members shall be remunerated in accordance"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "the limitations imposed on the person\u2019s limited legal capacity in a particular area, and to exercise the rights provided for in Articles 2.25 and 2.26 of this Code and the right to appeal against the acts of the curator or guardian.\n\n\n3. Where the circumstances that led to the limitation of a person\u2019s legal capacity in a certain area are no longer valid, the court shall lift the limitation on the person\u2019s legal capacity in that particular area. After the court judgment becomes final, the curatorship in regard to this area to the said person shall be revoked.\n\n\n4. A person of full age with limited legal capacity in a certain area shall be personally liable for his contractual and non-contractual obligations.\n\n\n5. The spouse of a person, his parents, adult children, an institution of guardianship/curatorship or a public prosecutor shall have the right to request the imposition of a limitation on a person\u2019s civil legal capacity in a certain area. They shall also have the right to apply to court requesting the declaration of the person\u2019s full legal capacity or legal capacity in the area in which the person is declared to be of limited legal capacity. The person whose legal capacity has been limited shall also have the right to apply to court requesting the court to lift the limitation on his legal capacity.\n\n\n6. Provisions of the articles of Part VII of Book Three of this Code shall apply mutatis"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "lift the limitation on his legal capacity.\n\n\n6. Provisions of the articles of Part VII of Book Three of this Code shall apply mutatis mutandis to relations arising in the exercise and protection of the property and non-property rights of a natural person legally incapable in a certain area or a natural person with limited legal capacity in a certain area.\n\n\n7. A person declared to be of limited legal capacity in a certain area shall bear the legal consequences of limited legal capacity, as laid down in legal acts, in that particular area only."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. The Register of Legally Incapable Persons and Persons with Limited Legal Capacity shall record persons who have been declared legally incapable in a certain area by the court or whose active civil capacity is limited in a certain area; minors from the age of fourteen to eighteen in the cases provided for in paragraph 3 of Article 2.8 of this Code; guardians and curators of such persons; persons who have concluded an agreement on assistance in making decisions; persons providing assistance in making decisions; areas in which assistance in making decisions is provided to a person; and durable powers of attorney made by persons, and shall process the data on the court decisions, adopted in respect of these persons, concerning the establishment of legal incapacity or limitation of legal capacity; the areas in which a person has been declared legally incapable and/or in which a person\u2019s legal capacity is limited, and revocation of limitation of legal capacity or legal incapacity; as well as the data on agreements on assistance in making decisions; termination of the said assistance; and durable powers of attorney. The Register of Legally Incapable Persons and Persons with Limited Legal Capacity shall be a non-public state register.\n\n\n2. The data controller of the Register of Legally Incapable Persons and Persons with Limited Legal Capacity shall be the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter: the \u2018Ministry of Justice\u2019). The data processor of the Register shall be appointed by the Government. The"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. Being an expression of a person\u2019s relationship with the state or part of its territory, the domicile of a natural person shall be that state or its part, in which he permanently or ordinarily resides, regarding that state or its part to be the seat of his personal, social and economic interests.\n\n\n2. A natural person shall be deemed to be domiciled in the Republic of Lithuania where, of his own will, he establishes and maintains the only or principal residence with the intention to make it the seat of his personal, social and economic interests. This intention, inter alia, may manifest itself by the person\u2019s actual presence on the territory of the Republic of Lithuania as well as the establishment of personal or business relations between him and the persons of the Republic of Lithuania or by some other criteria.\n\n\n3. A natural person may have only one domicile. A person called to a temporary or revocable public office shall retain his domicile.\n\n\n4. The domicile of a natural person shall be deemed unchanged until he changes it to another domicile.\n\n\n5. The domicile of a married person shall not depend on the domicile of his spouse, although the domicile of one of the spouses is the fact which may be taken into consideration in establishing the domicile of the other spouse."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. Privacy of a natural person shall be inviolable. Information on a person\u2019s private life may be made public only with his consent. After the death of a person, such consent may be given by his spouse, parents or children.\n\n\n2. Unlawful entry into a person\u2019s dwelling or other private premises as well as a fenced private territory, unlawful surveillance of a person, unlawful search of a person or his property, violation of the confidentiality of a person\u2019s telephone, post or other private communications as well as personal notes and information, publication of the data on the state of his health in violation of the procedure prescribed by laws and other unlawful acts shall be deemed to violate a person\u2019s private life.\n\n\n3. Establishment of a file on another person\u2019s private life in violation of law shall be prohibited. A person may not be denied access to the information contained in the file, except as otherwise provided by law. Dissemination of the collected information on a person\u2019s private life shall be prohibited unless, taking into consideration a person\u2019s official post and his status in the society, dissemination of the said information is in line with a legitimate and well-grounded public interest to know the said information.\n\n\n4. Public announcement of facts of a person\u2019s private life, however truthful they may be, as well as making private correspondence public in violation of the procedure prescribed in paragraphs"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "of a person\u2019s private life, however truthful they may be, as well as making private correspondence public in violation of the procedure prescribed in paragraphs 1 and 3 of this Article as well as entry into a person\u2019s dwelling without his consent, except as otherwise provided by law, surveillance of a person\u2019s private life or collecting information about him in violation of law as well as other unlawful acts, infringing the right to privacy shall form the basis for bringing an action for redressing the pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage incurred by the said acts.\n\n\n5. The restrictions provided for in paragraphs 1 and 3 of this Article relating to the publication and collection of information about a person shall not apply where this is done by a reasoned court judgment."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. A person shall have the right to demand a refutation, in judicial proceedings, of the disseminated data, which abase his honour and dignity and which are false, as well as redress of the pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage incurred by the dissemination of the said data. After the death of a person, this right shall pass on to his spouse, parents and children if the dissemination of false data about the deceased person also abases their honour and dignity. The disseminated data shall be presumed to be false until the person who disseminated them proves the opposite.\n\n\n2. Where false data were disseminated by a mass medium (press, television, radio etc.), the person about whom the data were disseminated shall have the right to file a refutation and demand the given mass medium to publish the said refutation free of charge or make it public in some other way. The mass medium must publish the refutation or make it public in some other way in the course of two weeks from its receipt. The mass medium shall have the right to refuse to publish the refutation or make it public only in such cases where the content of the refutation contradicts good morals.\n\n\n3. The claim to redress the pecuniary or non-pecuniary damage shall be examined by the court irrespective of the fact whether the person who has disseminated such data refuted them or not.\n\n\n4. Where a mass medium refuses to publish the"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "irrespective of the fact whether the person who has disseminated such data refuted them or not.\n\n\n4. Where a mass medium refuses to publish the refutation or make it public in some other way or fails to do so within the time limit provided in paragraph 2 of this Article, the person shall be entitled to apply to court in accordance with the procedure established in paragraph 1 of this Article. In such a case, the court shall establish the procedure and time limits for the refutation of the data, which are false or abase another person\u2019s reputation.\n\n\n5. The mass medium, which disseminated false data abasing a person\u2019s reputation, must redress pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage incurred by the person only in those cases where it was aware or ought to have been aware that the disseminated data were false as well as in those cases where the data were made public by its employees or the data were disseminated anonymously and the mass medium refuses to name the person who supplied the said data. In all other cases, the person who has disseminated the data and his undertaking must redress the pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage.\n\n\n6. The person who has disseminated false data shall be exempted from civil liability in cases where the disseminated data are related to a public person and his state or public activities and the person who has made them public proves that his actions were in good faith and meant to introduce the"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "a public person and his state or public activities and the person who has made them public proves that his actions were in good faith and meant to introduce the person and his activities to the public.\n\n\n7. Where the court judgment, which obliges the refutation of false data abasing a person\u2019s honour and dignity, is not executed, the court may issue an order to recover a fine from the defendant for each day of default. The amount of the fine shall be determined by the court. It shall be recovered in favour of the plaintiff, irrespective of the redress for the inflicted non-pecuniary damage.\n\n\n8. The provisions of this Article shall also apply to protect the tarnished professional reputation of a legal person.\n\n\n9. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to those participants of judicial proceedings who are not held responsible for the speeches delivered at court hearings or data made public in judicial documents."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "2. Intervention into a human body, removal of a person\u2019s body parts or organs shall be possible only with his consent. Consent to a surgical operation must be given in writing. Where a person is legally incapable in this area, the consent may be given by his guardian; however, castration, sterilisation, termination of pregnancy, operation, removal of organs of a person incapable in this area shall be subject to judicial authorisation. The consent and judicial authorisation provided for in this paragraph shall not be necessary in emergency cases where a person\u2019s life is endangered and has to be saved while the person himself is unable to express his will.\n\n\n3. A person may determine, in writing, the manner of use of his body after death and funeral arrangements.\n\n\n4. The procedure for the donation and transplantation of human tissues and organs shall be established in a separate law.\n\n\n5. Human body, its parts or organs and tissues may not be subjects of commercial transactions. Such transactions shall be null and void.\n\n\n6. The person whose right to the inviolability and integrity of his person has been infringed shall have the right to request the guilty persons to redress pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage incurred by him."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. Freedom of a natural person shall be inviolable. A legally capable person may be placed under any supervision or imposed any restrictions only upon his consent and in other cases prescribed by law.\n\n\n2. Where a person\u2019s life is endangered or he has to be hospitalised to protect the public interests, the person\u2019s consent to the medical care shall not be required.\n\n\n3. Psychiatric examination of a person may be conducted only with his consent or judicial authorisation. Consent to conduct psychiatric examination of a person incapable in this area may be given by his guardian or by the court. Where a person\u2019s life is seriously endangered, urgent psychiatric care may be provided without the person\u2019s consent.\n\n\n4. Placement of a person in a mental health care institution shall be subject to his consent or judicial authorisation. Where a person has a mental or behavioural disorder and there is a real threat that his acts or omissions may cause substantial damage to his health, life and property, or to that of other people, the person may be subject to compulsory hospitalisation for the period not exceeding three working days. Compulsory hospitalisation may be extended only after the judicial authorisation is granted in accordance with the procedure prescribed by law. Where a person is incapable in the relevant area, his guardian may give his consent to the said person\u2019s compulsory hospitalisation for the period not exceeding three working days. Compulsory hospitalisation of"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. Where no information on a person\u2019s whereabouts is obtained in his domicile for a period of three years and where he disappeared under such circumstances, which posed a mortal threat or give the grounds to suspect that he was killed in an accident, and no information about the person has been obtained for a period of six months, a declaratory judgment of the natural person\u2019s death may be pronounced in court. The commencement of the said periods shall be established in accordance with the rules laid down in paragraph 2 of Article 2.28 of this Code.\n\n\n2. A soldier or any other person who disappeared as a result of military actions may be declared dead by the court but not earlier than two years as of the day of the end of military actions.\n\n\n3. A declaratory judgment of death may be pronounced for a person irrespective of whether or not he has previously been declared an absentee.\n\n\n4. The date of death of a person for whom a declaratory judgment of death was pronounced shall be deemed to be the date when the court judgment declaring the person to be dead enters into force. Where a declaratory judgment of death is pronounced for a person who disappeared under such circumstances, which posed mortal threat or give grounds to suspect that he was killed in an accident, the court may recognise the alleged date of the accident to be the date of his death.\n\n\n5. A specific location indicated in the court judgment shall be considered"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "recognise the alleged date of the accident to be the date of his death.\n\n\n5. A specific location indicated in the court judgment shall be considered to be the location of such person\u2019s death. Where it is impossible to establish a specific location of a person\u2019s death, the last known location of his whereabouts shall be deemed to be the location of his death.\n\n\n6. From the point of view of a person\u2019s civil rights and obligations, pronouncement of a declaratory judgment of his death shall equal the act of the person\u2019s death."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.38. Trade unions\n\n\n1. Where the requirements of paragraph 2 of this Article are fulfilled, trade unions shall be considered to be legal persons.\n\n\n2. A trade union shall be established where it has at least 20 founders or where the founders would account for at least one tenth of all employees in an enterprise, an institution or an organisation (while one tenth of all employees would comprise at least three employees) and where the general meeting of the trade union approves its statute and elects its management bodies.\n\n\n3. Citizens of the Republic of Lithuania and foreigners with general legal capacity in employment relationships may be founders of a trade union.\n\n\n4. The provisions of Chapter V of this Book shall apply to trade unions to the extent they do not contradict the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article. Trade unions shall submit to the Register of Legal Entities documents testifying to their compliance with the requirements laid down in paragraph 2 of this Article."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. A legal person must possess its business name enabling to distinguish it from other legal persons.\n\n\n2. The business name of a legal person shall be its property, which, however, may not be sold or conveyed in any other manner to become the property of another person separately from the legal person.\n\n\n3. The business name of a legal person may not contradict the public order or good morals or mislead the public as to its incorporator, participant, registered office, purpose of activities, legal form, identity or similarity to the business names of other legal persons or the names of foreign enterprises, institutions and organisations as well as trademarks and service marks that are better known to the Lithuanian public. The business name of a legal person may not mislead as to its identity or similarity to well-known trademarks and service marks which were submitted for registration, registered or recognised in the Republic of Lithuania prior to the said legal person.\n\n\n4. In the case of application of paragraph 3 of Article 2.46 of this Code, the business name of a legal person shall not be registered separately and shall be protected as of the day on which an application for the registration of a legal person is submitted to the Register of Legal Entities or from the date of adoption of a legal act.\n\n\n5. Regulations of the Register of Legal Entities may establish additional requirements for the business name of legal persons."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.40. Composition of the business name of a legal person\n\n\n1. The business name of a legal person shall be composed of words or word combinations used in their figurative or direct meaning.\n\n\n2. The business name of a legal person shall be composed by taking into consideration the norms of the standard Lithuanian language and may not be composed of a generic word(s) denoting directly the sort of objects or services of activity or a single toponym or of some other word with no distinctive feature.\n\n\n3. The business name of a legal person may be composed only of letters, which may not be understood as words and numerals or their combinations only in cases when such business name is customary in society. Where the consent has been given, the business name of a legal person which is related to a foreign legal person or other organisation may be composed in such a manner which would make the said name identical or similar to the business name of a foreign legal person or other organisation."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.41. Business name of a legal person which is in the process of incorporation\n\n\n1. Incorporators of a legal person may apply to the Register of Legal Entities and request to make a temporary entry, in the Register of Legal Entities, of the business name of a legal person which is in the process of incorporation.\n\n\n2. The business name of a legal person which is in the process of incorporation shall be subject to the same rules as the business name of a legal person, with the exception of paragraph 4 of Article 2.39 and Article 2.42 of this Code.\n\n\n3. Entry of the business name of a legal person which is in the process of incorporation shall be made in the Register of Legal Entities for the period of six months and upon its expiry shall be deleted without notification thereof to the incorporators of the legal person."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.42. Right to the business name of a legal person\n\n\n1. It shall be prohibited to acquire rights and assume obligations by using another legal person\u2019s business name as a cover or to use another legal person\u2019s business name without the latter\u2019s consent.\n\n\n2. Where a legal person\u2019s right to a business name has been infringed by another person\u2019s unlawful use of the said person\u2019s business name or where the other person has or uses a business name which fails to meet the requirements laid down in Article 2.39 of this Code, the legal person shall have the right to apply to court and request the court to oblige the legal person to discontinue the said unlawful acts or to alter the business name and to redress the pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage incurred by the said acts, while where the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article have been infringed, also request the person to return everything he has acquired by using another person\u2019s business name as a cover or using the said name without the latter\u2019s consent."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.43. Alteration of the business name of a legal person\n\n\n1. Prior to the alteration of the business name, a legal person must make a public announcement thereof once or give all creditors written notification thereof.\n\n\n2. Where a legal person fails to discharge its obligation stipulated in paragraph 1 of this Article, it shall have to bear the risk of ensuing negative consequences related to its failure to notify about the alteration of its business name.\n\n\n3. The business name of a legal person shall be altered by altering the incorporation documents, which are registered in the Register of Legal Entities only after the requirements of paragraph 1 of this Article have been fulfilled.\n\n\n4. A legal person shall have the right to apply to the Register of Legal Entities and request it to make a temporary entry in the Register of Legal Entities of the planned new business name. In such cases, the provisions of Article 2.41 of this Code shall apply mutatis mutandis."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.44. Information supplied in the documents of a legal person\n\n\n1. Documents of a legal person used in its business relations with other entities (business letters, invoices, trade documents, etc.) must include the following information:\n\n\n1) business name of a legal person;\n\n\n2) legal form of a legal person;\n\n\n3) head office of a legal person;\n\n\n4) address of the electronic delivery box of the National Information System for Delivery of Electronic Messages and Documents Using Post Infrastructure (hereinafter: the \u2018e-delivery box\u2019) of a legal person;\n\n\n5) registration number of a legal person;\n\n\n6) register in which the data on the given legal person are accumulated and stored.\n\n\n2. Where a legal person has declared bankruptcy or is liquidated, the information thereof must be indicated in the documents specified in paragraph 1 of this Article.\n\n\n3. No longer effective from 14 April 2012.\n\n\n4. Where the capital of a legal person is mentioned in the documents specified in paragraph 1 of this Article, the authorised capital and the amount of paid-in authorised capital must be indicated as well.\n\n\n5. Documents must be approved with the seal of a legal person only in cases where the legal person is obliged to have a seal under the incorporation documents or by law."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.46. Documents of incorporation of a legal person\n\n\n1. Legal persons shall act in accordance with the documents of their incorporation: articles of incorporation and incorporation contract or general regulations in cases provided for by law. According to the provisions of this Code, articles of incorporation shall have equal status with the regulations, statutes and other incorporation documents of legal persons.\n\n\n2. Provisions of incorporation documents shall be valid to the extent they do not contradict the mandatory provisions of laws.\n\n\n3. Public legal persons may act in accordance with the law or, where it is provided for by law, in accordance with the legal act on the incorporation of a public legal person adopted by the state or municipal institutions if the said act does not provide for the obligation of a public legal person to act in accordance with the statutes approved by the state or municipal institutions.\n\n\n4. In case of failure to file the incorporation documents of a legal person with the Register of Legal Entities within six months of the date on which they were drawn up, they shall be deemed void unless other laws provide for a different time limit. The legal acts referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article must be filed with the Register of Legal Entities within the time limits prescribed by these legal acts.\n\n\n5. The signatures of the natural persons who have signed the incorporation documents of a legal person shall be authenticated by a notary, with the exceptions established by law."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) business name of a legal person;\n\n\n2) legal form of a legal person;\n\n\n3) (no longer effective from 1 January 2010);\n\n\n4) goals of activities of a legal person;\n\n\n5) remit of the meeting of participants of a legal person and the procedure for its convening;\n\n\n6) bodies of a legal person and the remit thereof, the procedure for their formation and dissolution or a participant of a legal person, where the bodies are not formed and the legal person exercises its rights through a participant of the legal person;\n\n\n7) procedure for the alteration of the incorporation documents of a legal person;\n\n\n8) where the term of activities of a legal person is restricted, the term of its activities;\n\n\n9) other provisions established by laws, the incorporator or a participant of a legal person.\n\n\n2. Goals of activities of public legal persons must be defined in a clear and comprehensive manner, indicating the field and type of activities.\n\n\n3. It shall not be necessary to indicate the procedure for convening a meeting of participants of a legal person and the remit of the meeting, the procedure for setting up and dissolving other bodies of a legal person and the remit thereof and the procedure for alteration of the documents of incorporation if such procedure is identical to the procedure provided for by law and where the given fact is indicated in the articles of incorporation."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.49. Registered office of a legal person\n\n\n1. The registered office of a legal person shall be the seat of its permanentmanagement body. The registered office of a legal person shall be defined by indicating the address of the premises in which the head office is located.\n\n\n2. Where the registered office of a legal person, as indicated in the Register of Legal Entities or the contract, and the seat of its permanent management body do not coincide, the third parties shall have the right to consider the seat of its permanent management body to be the registered office of a legal person.\n\n\n3. All correspondence with a legal person shall be deemed appropriate where the address of the registered office or the address of the e-delivery box of the legal person is used as well as where due regard of paragraph 2 of this Article is taken, except as otherwise expressly provided by the legal person.\n\n\n4. A decision regarding the registered office of a legal person shall be taken by its incorporators. A decision to change the registered office of a legal person shall be taken in accordance with the procedure laid down in the incorporation documents of a legal person unless laws regulating activities of individual legal persons provide otherwise."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.50. Contractual liability of legal persons\n\n\n1. A legal person shall be liable for its obligations to the extent of its property, which it owns on the basis of the ownership right or the right of trust.\n\n\n2. A legal person shall not be liable for the obligations of its participant and the latter shall not be liable for the obligations of the legal person, with the exception of cases provided by law and the incorporation documents of a legal person.\n\n\n3. Where a legal person fails to perform its obligations due to acts in bad faith of a participant of the legal person, the participant of a legal person shall, in a subsidiary manner, be liable for the obligations of a legal person to the extent of his property.\n\n\n4. Legal persons shall be divided into those with limited and unlimited civil liability. Where the property of a legal person with unlimited civil liability is not sufficient to discharge its obligations, a participant of a legal person shall be liable for the said obligations unless the laws provide otherwise."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.52. Financial year of a legal person\n\n\n1. The financial year of a legal person shall be a calendar year.\n\n\n2. Any other period of twelve months may be considered to be the financial year of a legal person. It must be indicated in the incorporation documents of a legal person.\n\n\n3. Where the financial year is changed, the end of the financial year shall be considered to be the end of a new financial year if the period from the beginning of the financial year to the end of the new financial year is not longer than eighteen months. Where this period exceeds eighteen months, a transitional financial year shall be established, starting at the end of the old financial year and ending at the beginning of the new financial year.\n\n\n4. Upon the incorporation of a legal person, the first financial year of a legal person shall be the period from the day of its incorporation to the end of the financial year. Upon the termination of a legal person, the period from the beginning of the financial year to the date of termination of a legal person shall be considered to be the last financial year.\n\n\n5. The financial year of a legal person may not be altered more frequently than once in five years. Where a legal person changes its financial year for a financial year coinciding with the calendar year, the given provision shall not apply."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.61. Transactions concluded prior to the incorporation of a legal person\n\n\n1. A particular management body of a legal person or any other body specified in the incorporation document shall have the right to approve transactions which were concluded by other persons in the name of and on behalf of a legal person prior to the incorporation of the legal person. When concluding such transaction, it must be indicated that it is concluded in the name of and on behalf of the legal person which is in the process of incorporation. Where such reference is not included, the person who has concluded the transaction and the legal person, whose management body or any other body specified in the incorporation document approved the transaction concluded on his behalf, shall be liable jointly and severally for the discharge of obligations arising from the said transaction.\n\n\n2. Where such transaction is not approved by the body of the legal person which was incorporated at a later date, all obligations arising from the transaction shall have to be discharged by the person who has concluded the said transaction. Where such transaction has been concluded by several persons and where a legal person fails to approve it, all persons shall be liable jointly and severally for the discharge of obligations arising from the said transaction."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.62. Register of Legal Entities\n\n\n1. Legal persons must be registered in the Register of Legal Entities.\n\n\n2. The Register of Legal Entities shall contain the names of legal persons and accumulate the data and documents related to legal persons. The Register of Legal Entities shall be the main state register.\n\n\n3. The Register of Legal Entities must be supplied with all data prescribed by law on legal persons themselves and their activities (the principle of disclosure).\n\n\n4. A head institution responsible for the processing of data of the Register of Legal Entities and an institution responsible for the processing of data of the Register (data processor of the Register) shall be established by law.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.63. Moment of incorporation of a legal person\n\n\n1. A legal person shall be deemed incorporated as of the moment of its registration in the Register of Legal Entities.\n\n\n2. A law or, in cases prescribed by law, any other legal act forming the basis for the incorporation of a public legal person, may establish that a legal person is deemed incorporated as of the date of entry into force of the legal act forming the basis for its incorporation. In such cases, that legal act must contain the data referred to in Article 2.66 of this Code and the said legal act must be made public and transmitted to the Register of Legal Entities."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) the application of the established form for the registration of a legal person;\n\n\n2) the incorporation documents of a legal person;\n\n\n3) the licence, where issuance of a licence prior to the incorporation of a legal person is provided for by law;\n\n\n4) the documents verifying the authenticity of documents which are submitted to the Register and the compliance of incorporation documents with the provisions of laws as well as the documents verifying the fact that a legal person may be registered because contractual obligations assumed under law or the incorporation transaction have been fulfilled and the circumstances prescribed by law or the incorporation documents have emerged. Those documents shall be drawn up or attested by a notary, except in the cases provided for in the regulations of the Register of Legal Entities;\n\n\n5) (no longer effective from 1 January 2010);\n\n\n6) other documents prescribed by laws.\n\n\n3. A legal person must be registered within three working days from the day on which all documents listed in paragraph 2 of this Article are submitted and a registration fee is paid.\n\n\n4. The procedure for the registration of legal persons shall be established in the regulations of the Register of Legal Entities. They shall be approved by the Government.\n\n\n5. No longer effective from 30 July 2021.\n\n\n6. A legal person may be removed from the Register of Legal Entities only upon the termination of the legal person."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.66. Data stored in the Register of Legal Entities\n\n\n1. The Register of Legal Entities must contain the following information:\n\n\n1) business name of a legal person;\n\n\n2) legal form of a legal person;\n\n\n3) registration number of a legal person;\n\n\n4) the registered office of a legal person;\n\n\n5) the address of the e-delivery box of a legal person;\n\n\n6) the bodies of a legal person;\n\n\n7) members of the management bodies of a legal person (name, surname, personal number, place of residence);\n\n\n8) members of the management bodies of a legal person and participants of a legal person having the right to conclude contracts in the name of the legal person, limits of their authority;\n\n\n9) branch offices and representative offices of a legal person (names, codes, registered offices, members of management bodies of branch offices and representative offices);\n\n\n10) restrictions on the activities of a legal person;\n\n\n11) the legal status of a legal person;\n\n\n12) termination of a legal person;\n\n\n13) dates of alterations in the data and documents of a legal person filed with the Register;\n\n\n14) the financial year of a legal person;"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "15) other data prescribed by law.\n\n\n2. When registering legal persons whose participants are liable for the obligations of a legal person, additional information must be furnished, namely: the name, surname, personal number and the place of residence of the participant being a natural person, or the business name, legal form, code and registered office of the participant being a legal person.\n\n\n3. Where the data listed in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article have been altered and where the incorporation documents or other data listed in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article haves been altered, a legal person must (except in the cases referred to in paragraph 5 of this Article, where the procedural documents are filed by the court) file an application of the established form requesting the registration of the alterations in the Register of Legal Entities within 30 days from the day the alterations have been made. The documents listed in point 4 of paragraph 2 of Article 2.64 of this Code and full text of the altered document, where the document has been altered, must be submitted together with the application requesting the registration of the alterations.\n\n\n4. In the cases prescribed by laws, a set of annual financial statements (a set of consolidated annual financial statements) and/or an annual report (a consolidated annual report), or activity report, or an annual report of an enterprise shall be submitted to the Register of Legal Entities every year within 30 days from their approval, except as otherwise provided for by law."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "of an enterprise shall be submitted to the Register of Legal Entities every year within 30 days from their approval, except as otherwise provided for by law. In the cases where the audit of financial statements has been performed, an audited set of annual financial statements (a set of consolidated annual financial statements) must be accompanied by an auditor\u2019s report. 5.                                                                                                            In cases provided for in the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Insolvency of Legal Persons, where the insolvency process is conducted through court proceedings, the data referred to in points 10 and 11 of paragraph 1 of this Article, as well as any other data related to the registration/de-registration of the legal status of a legal person, shall be registered in the Register of Legal Entities on the basis of the court\u2019s procedural documents (rulings, judgments). \n\n\n6. Alterations in the data listed in points 1 to 7 and 11 of"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "procedural documents (rulings, judgments). \n\n\n6. Alterations in the data listed in points 1 to 7 and 11 of paragraph 1 of this Article as well as alterations in the incorporation documents shall enter into force only upon their registration in the Register of Legal Entities, with the exception of derogations provided by law."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.68. Refusal to register\n\n\n1. The data processor of the Register may refuse to register a legal person or the alterations in the data and documents of a legal person only in the cases where:\n\n\n1) the application to register a legal person (alterations in the data and documents to be registered in the Register, removal of data) fails to conform to the established form or not all documents specified in Articles 2.63 and 2.64 of this Code are submitted;\n\n\n2) the time limits specified in paragraph 4 of Article 2.46 of this Code have expired;\n\n\n3) the data and documents submitted to the Register are inconsistent,  unclear or misleading;\n\n\n4) the form or content of the documents fail to conform to the requirements provided for by law.\n\n\n2. Where obstacles for the registration of the submitted documents and data arise, the data processor of the Register shall set a time limit for the elimination of defects. Where the defects are not eliminated within the established time limit and corrected documents are not submitted to the data processor of the Register, the data processor of the Register shall take a motivated decision to refuse the registration of a legal person (alterations in the data or documents).\n\n\n3. A decision to refuse the registration of a legal person (alterations in data or documents to be registered in the Register) shall be appealed to the court in accordance with the procedure established by law."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.69. Rectifications in the Register of Legal Entities\n\n\n1. Rectifications in the Register of Legal Entities shall be made on the application of a legal person or a person whose data have been entered in the Register or on the initiative of the data processor of the Register.\n\n\n2. Upon the detection of an error in the Register, the data processor of the Register must, without delay, notify in writing a legal person thereof. Where a legal person fails to raise objections within the time limit set by the data processor of the Register for the rectification of the error, the data in the Register shall be rectified by the data processor of the Register.\n\n\n3. Where a legal person, the data whereof have been registered in the Register, requests the rectification of an error in the Register, the data processor of the Register must rectify the data in the Register within three working days from the date of receipt of the application and the documents verifying the facts specified therein.\n\n\n4. Where possible, the data processor of the Register must notify the persons who were given erroneous data about the rectification of the error in the Register."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) the legal person has failed to submit the documents specified in paragraph 4 of Article 2.66 of this Code within twelve months from the expiry of the time limits set by this Code or other laws for submission of these documents to the Register of Legal Entities;\n\n\n2) the management bodies of a legal person have not been set up thus making it impossible for them to adopt decisions for more than six months;\n\n\n3) members of the management bodies of a legal person may not be contacted at the registered office of a legal person or addresses indicated in the Register of Legal Entities;\n\n\n4) a legal person fails to update its data in the Register of Legal Entities within five years and there are grounds to believe that the said legal person does not pursue any activities;\n\n\n5) a political party fails to submit the list of its members within one year in accordance with the procedure established by the Law on Political Parties;\n\n\n6) the authorised capital of a public limited liability company or a private limited liability company is below the minimum authorised capital established by laws;\n\n\n7) a court issues a ruling to refuse to open bankruptcy proceedings against an insolvent legal person and to order the initiation of liquidation of the legal person of the motion of the data processor of the Register of Legal Entities, and notifies the data processor of the Register of Legal Entities thereof.\n\n\n2. In the presence of the circumstances provided for in paragraph 1 of"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "notifies the data processor of the Register of Legal Entities thereof.\n\n\n2. In the presence of the circumstances provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article, the data processor of the Register of Legal Entities must send a notification of the intended initiation of liquidation of a legal person to the registered office of the legal person and to the addresses of members of the management bodies of the legal person indicated in the Register of Legal Entities. Where it is not possible to send a notification of the intended initiation of liquidation of a legal person to the registered office of the legal person and/or to the addresses of members of the management bodies of the legal person indicated in the Register of Legal Entities, the data processor of the Register shall make a public announcement of the intended initiation of liquidation of a legal person in the source provided for in the regulations of the Register of Legal Entities and shall serve the said notification by other means specified in the regulations of the Register of Legal Entities.\n\n\n3. Where, within three months from the date of dispatch of a notification of the intended initiation of liquidation of a legal person or public announcement thereof, the legal person fails to produce, to the data processor of the Register, the documents specified in paragraph 1 of this Article or in the regulations of the Register of Legal Entities and refuting the presence of the circumstances specified in paragraph 1 of this Article, the data processor of the Register shall, in accordance with the procedure established in the"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "the presence of the circumstances specified in paragraph 1 of this Article, the data processor of the Register shall, in accordance with the procedure established in the regulations of the Register of Legal Entities, take a decision to initiate the liquidation of the legal person and the legal person shall acquire the status of a legal person in liquidation. The data processor of the Register shall make a public announcement thereof in the source specified in the regulations of the Register of Legal Entities.\n\n\n4. In the presence of the circumstances provided for in point 7 of paragraph 1 of this Article, a person who has filed a petition with the court for the opening of bankruptcy proceedings against a legal person and who has failed to pay, in accordance with the law governing the insolvency of legal persons, the amount determined by the court for the payment of the costs of bankruptcy administration, shall not have the right to refute the presence of the circumstances forming the basis for the liquidation of the legal person in the manner specified in paragraph 3 of this Article.\n\n\n5. The initiated liquidation of a legal person may be revoked by a court judgment in accordance with the procedure laid down in Chapter XXXIX of the Code of Civil Procedure. A participant of a legal person or a member of the management body of a legal person may file an application with a court requesting to revoke the initiated liquidation of the legal person within one year of the acquisition of the status of a legal person in liquidation. Upon accepting the said"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.73. Liability for unlawful refusal to register a legal person and for errors in the Register of Legal Entitites\n\n\n1. Where a legal person and the data submitted to the Register or documents to be registered in the Register are unlawfully refused registration, a legal person shall have the right to seek redress for the damage inflicted on him by the said actions.\n\n\n2. Damage caused by the actions specified in paragraph 1 of this Article to a legal person as well as damage caused to other persons in the administration of the Register of Legal Entities shall be redressed by the State. The said damage shall be recovered in court. An institution authorised by the Government shall represent the State in civil cases for the award of damages.\n\n \n\n\nCHAPTER VI\n\nLEGAL CAPACITY OF LEGAL PERSONS"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "CHAPTER VI\n\nLEGAL CAPACITY OF LEGAL PERSONS\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.74. Legal capacity of legal persons\n\n\n1. Private legal persons may have or acquire any civil rights and assume obligations, except those which may arise only when such characteristics of a natural person as gender, age and kinship are in place.\n\n\n2. Public legal persons shall have a special legal capacity, i. e. they may have or acquire only those civil rights and assume those obligations which do not contradict the incorporation documents or goals of activities of public legal persons.\n\n\n3. The provisions of paragraph 3 of Article 2.4 of this Code shall apply to legal persons mutatis mutandis.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.75. Restrictions on legal capacity of legal persons\n\n\n1. Legal capacity of legal persons may not be imposed limitations in any other manner except as by express provision and procedure of law.\n\n\n2. Legal capacity of an individual legal person may be restricted only by a court judgment, except in the case referred to in Article 2.70 of this Code.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.76. Prohibition of discrimination\n\nIt shall be prohibited to establish in legal acts, for discrimination purposes, different rights, obligations or privileges for individual legal persons."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.78. Licensing rules\n\n\n1. The Government shall approve licensing rules for each type of licensed activities established by law unless other laws provide otherwise.\n\n\n2. Licensing rules shall indicate the following:\n\n\n1) licensed activities;\n\n\n2) the licensing institution and its authority;\n\n\n3) the documents required for the issuance of a licence;\n\n\n4) the procedure and time limits for the examination of submitted documents;\n\n\n5) types of licences, conditions of their issuance, re-issuance of a licence;\n\n\n6) forms of licences;\n\n\n7) the procedure for the registration of issued licences;\n\n\n8) cases of refusal to issue licenses;\n\n\n9) conditions of licensed activities, including the rights and obligations of licence holders;\n\n\n10) the procedure for the supervision of compliance with the terms of the licence;\n\n\n11) the procedure for and cases of the suspension and revocation of a licence.\n\n\n3. Licensing rules may also provide for other requirements and conditions."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.79. Issuance of a licence\n\n\n1. Where the conditions specified in the licensing rules are fulfilled, an open-ended licence shall be issued.\n\n\n2. A licence for the engagement in a certain activity or a written motivated refusal to issue a licence must be given to an applicant within thirty days of receipt of the documents required for the issuance of a licence, except as otherwise provided by law.\n\n\n3. Refusal to issue a licence may not be based on the inexpediency of activities and must be motivated.\n\n\n4. No longer effective from 15 June 2020.\n\n\n5. Upon the issuance of a licence, a legal person must supply information specified in the licensing rules and related to the licensed activities or conditions predetermining the issuance of the licence, and allow the supervisory authority for licensed activities to verify such information.\n\n\n6. A state fee for the issuance of a licence shall not exceed the costs of the issuance of a licence and supervision thereof.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.80. Prohibition to use administrative methods\n\n\n1. State or municipal authorities shall be prohibited from regulating the activities of legal persons through administrative methods not prescribed by law.\n\n\n2. Where, in accordance with the procedure prescribed by law, a state of emergency or martial law is declared or a certain territory is declared a disaster area, legal persons must comply with the instructions of the Government or relevant local authority."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "CHAPTER VII\n\nBODIES OF A LEGAL PERSON\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.81. Bodies of a legal person\n\n\n1. Legal persons shall acquire civil rights, assume civil obligations and fulfil them through their bodies which are set up and act in accordance with the law and documents of incorporation of legal persons.\n\n\n2. In cases prescribed by laws and incorporation documents, legal persons may acquire civil rights and assume obligations through their participants.\n\n\n3. Participants of a legal person shall have the right to bring an action before court requesting to prohibit the management bodies of a legal person to enter into future transactions which contravene the goals of activities of a legal person or extend beyond the remit of the management body of a legal person.\n\n\n4. Only natural persons may be members of the management bodies of a legal person, whereas both natural and legal persons may be members of other bodies."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. The remit and functions of the bodies of legal persons shall be established by laws regulating legal persons of a respective legal form and incorporation documents of a legal person.\n\n\n2. Where incorporation documents and laws regulating the activities of a legal person do not provide for a different structure of the bodies, each legal person must have a single-person or a collegial management body and the meeting of participants. Laws regulating individual legal forms of legal persons may establish that the management body and the meeting of participants shall be considered to be a single body of a legal person, where the incorporation documents of a legal person so provide.\n\n\n3. The management body shall be responsible for convocation of the meeting of participants of a legal person, notification of the participants of a legal person about the essential events which are important for the activities of a legal person, organisation of the activities of a legal person, accounting of the participants of a legal person and actions specified in paragraph 3 of Article 2.4 of this Code, except as otherwise provided in laws regulating the activities of individual legal persons.\n\n\n4. Decisions of the bodies of a legal person may be declared void by the court where they contravene the imperative provisions of the law, incorporation documents of a legal person or principles of reasonableness and good faith. Where a decision infringes their rights or interests, an action may be brought by the creditors of a legal person, a respective management body of a legal person, a participant"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "their rights or interests, an action may be brought by the creditors of a legal person, a respective management body of a legal person, a participant of a legal person or other persons prescribed by law. Three-month limitation period shall be set for the said actions. It shall run from the day on which the defendant became aware or ought to have become aware of the contested decision unless this Code and other laws provide for a different limitation period of the action or a different procedure for challenging the decision."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.83. Transactions concluded in breach of the remit of management bodies of a private legal person\n\n\n1. Transactions concluded by the management bodies of a private legal person in breach of their remit shall impose obligations on a legal person, except in cases where it is proved that, when concluding the transaction, the third person was aware or, due to certain circumstances, could not have been unaware of the fact that the transaction had been concluded by the management body of a legal person that was not authorised to conclude it.\n\n\n2. Paragraph 1 of this Article shall not apply where quantitative representation has been established, i.e. only several members of the management body together, or a member of the management body and a representative together, or a member of the management body and a member of another body together, or a member of the management body and a participant together are authorised to act in the name of a legal person. Quantitative representation must be provided for in the incorporation documents of a legal person, specified in the Register of Legal Entities and published in accordance with the procedure established by the regulations of the Register of Legal Entities.\n\n\n3. Where a legal person fails to satisfy fully the claim of a third person, the person who has concluded the transaction under the circumstances laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article shall assume subsidiary liability."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. A member of the management body of a legal person must act in good faith and in a reasonable manner in respect of the legal person and other members of the legal person\u2019s bodies.\n\n\n2. A member of the management body of a legal person must be loyal to the legal person and maintain confidentiality.\n\n\n3. A member of the management body of a legal person must avoid a situation where his personal interests are contrary or may be contrary to the interests of the legal person.\n\n\n4. A member of the management body of a legal person may not confuse the property of the legal person with his own property and, without consent of participants of the legal person, use the property or the information, which he obtains in the capacity of a member of the legal person\u2019s body, for personal gain or for a third person\u2019s gain.\n\n\n5. A member of the management body of a legal person must notify other members of the management body of the legal person or participants of the legal person about the circumstances laid down in paragraph 3 of this Article and define their nature and, where possible, their value. Such information must be supplied in writing or included in the minutes of the meeting of a legal person\u2019s bodies.\n\n\n6. A member of the management body of a legal person may enter into a transaction with a legal person being in the capacity of a member of the said legal person\u2019s body. He"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) to vote according to instructions received from the management bodies of a legal person;\n\n\n2) to vote for all proposals made by the management bodies of a legal person;\n\n\n3) to vote according to instructions or abstain from voting for certain remuneration.\n\n\n2. An agreement on voting may establish that parties to the said agreement grant an authorisation to a third person to vote at the meetings of participants of a legal person in the name of the parties to the agreement on voting, and such authorisation may be revoked only in cases provided for in the said agreement.\n\n\n3. Upon the issuance of the authorisation as referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, the parties to an agreement on voting shall be deprived of the right to vote themselves or to issue authorisations to other persons to vote at the meeting of participants of a legal person on the issues specified in the authorisation.\n\n\n4. Where provisions of an agreement on voting have been infringed by one party to the agreement, the court shall have the right to oblige re-counting of the results of voting at the meeting of participants of a legal person in accordance with the agreement on voting, or reverse the decision taken at the meeting of participants of a legal person in cases where voting in violation of the agreement had a decisive influence on the adoption or non-adoption of a decision."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. Meetings of the collegial body of a legal person must be minuted.\n\n\n2. The minutes must include the time and place of a meeting, the number of participants, the fact of having a quorum, the results of voting, and decisions. The minutes must be accompanied by a list of participants and information on the convening of the meeting. At the request of the persons attending the meeting, the information requested by them must be included in the minutes. All alterations and supplements to the minutes must be deliberated.\n\n\n3. Minutes must be stored for at least ten years and, at the request of each participant or other member of the management body who participated or was entitled to participate in the meeting, a copy of the minutes must be issued. A legal person shall have the right to receive from a participant of a legal person a fee for the issuance of a copy of minutes, not exceeding the costs of its issuance.\n\n\n4. Where a decision is signed by all members of the body of a legal person, or where the body of a legal person consists of a single person and, in this case, a decision made by that member of the body of a legal person equals a decision made by the body of a legal person, minutes shall not be taken.\n\n\n5. Laws may provide for different or supplementary requirements for minutes, other than those laid down in paragraph 2 of this Article."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) public announcement about the terms of reorganisation of legal persons, as laid down in paragraph 2 of Article 2.99 of this Code, is made no later than thirty days prior to the meeting of participants of a legal person which is to be merged by acquisition;\n\n\n2) any participant of a legal person has the right to access the documents specified in paragraph 4 of this Article;\n\n\n3) one or several participants of a legal person with at least 1/20 of votes at the meeting of participants of a legal person have the right to request the convening of the meeting of participants of the legal person regarding the reorganisation by way of merger by acquisition.\n\n\n3. The decision to reorganise a legal person shall be adopted by a qualified majority vote. It shall be set in the incorporation documents and may not be less than 2/3 of the votes of all the participants present at the meeting. The decision to reorganise a legal person may be adopted only upon the expiry of a thirty-days period following the public announcement that the terms of reorganisation have been set, as specified in paragraph 1 of Article 2.101 of this Code. The terms of reorganisation must be approved by the decision to reorganise a legal person and documents of incorporation must be altered or new documents of incorporation must be adopted.\n\n\n4. No later than thirty days before the meeting of participants of a legal person regarding the reorganisation, participants of a legal person shall have"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "No later than thirty days before the meeting of participants of a legal person regarding the reorganisation, participants of a legal person shall have the right to access the terms of reorganisation, the documents of incorporation or draft documents of incorporation of legal persons to be continued or to be newly incorporated after the reorganisation, as well as the reports drawn up by all the management bodies of legal persons participating in the reorganisation, the assessments of experts and financial statements for the last three financial years. Where the terms of reorganisation were set six months after the end of the financial year of at least one legal person participating in the reorganisation, an interim financial statement must be drawn up in accordance with the same rules applied to the earlier financial statements and must be presented to the participants of a legal person. It shall be drawn up no earlier than three months prior to the setting of terms of the reorganisation. Each participant of a legal person shall have the right to receive copies of all the said documents.\n\n\n5. The management bodies of legal persons must notify participants of legal persons about all substantive changes after the terms of reorganisation have been set and prior to adopting a decision on the reorganisation, and attach this written notification to the documents specified in paragraph 4 of this Article as well as orally inform about any substantive changes at the meeting of participants of legal persons."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. Legal persons may be reorganised by way of merger and division.\n\n\n2. The possible modes of merger of a legal person shall be merger by acquisition and merger by formation of a new company.\n\n\n3. Merger by acquisition shall be the merger of one or more legal persons into another legal person, which becomes a successor to all rights and obligations of the legal person under reorganisation.\n\n\n4. Merger by formation of a new company shall be the merger of two or more legal persons into a new legal person, which becomes a successor to all rights and obligations of the reorganised legal persons.\n\n\n5. The possible modes of division of legal persons shall be division by acquisition and division by formation of a new company.\n\n\n6. Division by acquisition shall be the assigning of rights and obligations of a legal person under reorganisation to other legal persons in operation.\n\n\n7. Division by formation of a new company shall be the incorporation, on the basis of a single legal person under reorganisation, of two or more legal persons, which become successors to certain parts of the reorganised legal person\u2019s rights and obligations.  \n\n\n8. Where the decision to liquidate a legal person was not adopted by the meeting of participants of a legal person or where at least one participant of a legal person became a successor to a part of property of a legal person in liquidation, it shall be prohibited to reorganise such a legal person"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "a legal person became a successor to a part of property of a legal person in liquidation, it shall be prohibited to reorganise such a legal person in liquidation.\n\n\n9. Specific features of reorganisation of individual legal persons may be prescribed by laws regulating individual legal forms of legal persons."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.98. Reorganisation of legal persons of different legal forms\n\n\n1. Only legal persons of the same legal form may participate in the  reorganisation, with the exception of derogations provided by laws regulating individual legal forms of legal persons.\n\n\n2. Upon termination of a legal person under reorganisation whose participants are liable for the obligations of the legal person, irrespective of the terms of reorganisation, participants of the terminated reorganised legal person shall assume subsidiary liability, for a period of three years, for the obligations of the terminated legal person which emerged prior to the legal person\u2019s, which will continue activities, becoming a successor to the rights and obligations of the terminated legal person. Where a participant of a legal person fails to become a participant of the legal person continuing activities after the reorganisation, he shall not, either at the time of the reorganisation or thereafter, be exempt from the liability referred to in this paragraph."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) the information specified in Article 2.44 of this Code on all the legal persons participating in the reorganisation;\n\n\n2) the mode of reorganisation, terminated legal persons and legal persons continuing activities after the reorganisation;\n\n\n3) the procedure, conditions and time limits for a participant of the legal person under reorganisation to become a participant of the legal person continuing after the reorganisation, as well as payments to the participants of a legal person;\n\n\n4) the moment from which the legal person continuing after the reorganisation becomes a successor to rights and obligations of a terminated legal person;\n\n\n5) additional rights conferred to the management and other bodies of a legal person, administrative staff or experts specified in Article 2.100 of this Code.\n\n\n2. The terms of reorganisation must be published according to the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 2.101 of this Code and submitted to the Register of Legal Entities no later than on the first day of publication, applying the provisions of paragraph 3 of Article 2.66 of this Code mutatis mutandis.\n\n\n3. The management bodies of each legal person participating in the reorganisation must draw up written reports indicating the goals of the reorganisation, explaining the terms of the reorganisation, the continuity of activities of the legal person, and specifying the time limits and economic grounds for the reorganisation.\n\n\n4. Paragraph 3 of this Article shall apply only where the reorganisation involves a"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "the time limits and economic grounds for the reorganisation.\n\n\n4. Paragraph 3 of this Article shall apply only where the reorganisation involves a public limited liability company or other legal persons whose participants having at least 1/20 of all votes so request."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.100. Assessment of the terms of reorganisation\n\n\n1. The terms of reorganisation of legal persons shall be assessed by independent experts who have the necessary qualifications, provided that this is set out in laws regulating activities of individual legal persons.\n\n\n2. Independent experts shall be designated by each legal person participating in the reorganisation. Where a single expert for all legal persons under reorganisation is to be designated, such designation must be approved by the data processor of the Register of Legal Entities."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.101. Protection of rights of creditors of the legal persons under reorganisation\n\n\n1. The drawing up of the terms of reorganisation must be published three times at intervals of at least thirty days or published once and notified in writing to all the creditors of the legal person. The notification must contain the data specified in points 1, 2 and 4 of paragraph 1 of Article 2.99 of this Code and indicate where and from when the documents listed in paragraph 4 of Article 2.96 of this Code are available.\n\n\n2. A creditor of a legal person under reorganisation shall have the right to request termination of the contract or performance of obligations before the expiry of the time limit as well as redress of damages where this has been provided for in the transaction and where there are grounds to presume that the performance of obligations may become more difficult due to the reorganisation, and where, at the request of the creditor, a legal person has failed to extend an additional guarantee for the performance of obligations.\n\n\n3. Creditors of a legal person under reorganisation shall have the right to access the documents specified in paragraph 4 of Article 2.96 of this Code and receive their copies."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.104. Restructuring of legal persons\n\n\n1. Restructuring shall be an alteration of the legal form of a legal person whereby a legal person of a new legal form becomes the successor to all rights and duties of the restructured legal person.\n\n\n2. In the case of restructuring of a legal person whose participants are liable for the obligations of the legal person, participants of the restructured legal person, irrespective of the new legal form chosen, shall assume subsidiary liability, for a period of three years, for the obligations of the restructured legal person which emerged prior to the registration of a legal person of a new legal form in the Register of Legal Entities. Where a participant of a restructured legal person fails to become a participant of the legal person of a new legal form, he shall not, either at the time of the restructuring or thereafter, be exempt from the liability referred to in this paragraph.\n\n\n3. A public legal person, except state and municipal enterprises, may not be restructured into a private legal person.\n\n\n4. In restructuring of legal persons, provisions of paragraph 2 of Article 2.101, Article 2.102, paragraph 1 of Article 2.107 and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 2.112 shall apply mutatis mutandis.\n\n\n5. Specific features of restructuring of legal persons may also be prescribed by laws regulating individual legal forms of legal persons."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.106. Grounds for the liquidation of a legal person\n\nGrounds for the liquidation of a legal person may only be the following:\n\n\n1) participants of a legal person have adopted a decision to terminate the activities of a legal person;\n\n\n2) the court or the creditors\u2019 meeting has adopted a decision to liquidate a legal person due to bankruptcy;\n\n\n3) the court has passed a  judgment to liquidate a legal person in accordance with the provisions of Article 2.131 of this Code;\n\n\n4) the data processor of the Register of Legal Entities has adopted a decision to liquidate a legal person in accordance with the provisions of Article 2.70 of this Code;\n\n\n5) the term of a legal person has expired;\n\n\n6) the number of participants of a legal person has decreased below the permitted minimum prescribed by law, where a participant of a legal person fails to adopt a decision, within six months following the decrease, to reorganise or restructure a legal person;\n\n\n7) the incorporation of a legal person has been declared invalid in accordance with the provisions of Article 2.114 of this Code."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. After adopting a decision to liquidate a legal person, participants of legal persons, the meeting of creditors or the court must appoint a liquidator.\n\n\n2. Incorporation documents of a legal person or laws may provide for different rules for the appointment of a liquidator or designate a specific liquidator. These rules shall not be binding on the court and the meeting of creditors.\n\n\n3. A liquidator shall be a person having the necessary qualifications. Several liquidators may be appointed. If several liquidators are appointed, a liquidation commission shall be set up and one of the liquidators shall be appointed the chairperson of the liquidation commission.\n\n\n4. Where points 5 and 6 of Article 2.106 of this Code constitute grounds for the liquidation and where a participant of a legal person fails to appoint a liquidator, the management bodies of a legal person or participants of a legal person with at least 1/20 of all votes and the data processor of the Register of Legal Entities shall have the right to apply to court requesting the appointment of a liquidator.\n\n\n5. Where points 3 or 7 of Article 2.106 of this Code constitute grounds for the liquidation, the duties of a liquidator shall be discharged by an institution authorised by the Government until a liquidator is appointed by a participant of a legal person. Subject to the approval of the court, this institution shall have the right to assign another person to discharge the duties of"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.109. Revocation of a liquidator of a legal person\n\n\n1. A liquidator of a legal person appointed by participants of a legal person may be revoked by a simple majority vote of the participants of the legal person present at the meeting.\n\n\n2. Participants of a legal person with at least 1/10 of all votes, a creditor with a right of claim of at least fourteen thousand five hundred euros, or at least 1/5 of all the employees of a legal person shall have the right to apply to court requesting to change the liquidator where he fails to act in a proper manner, is dishonest in effecting settlements with creditors and participants of the legal person, is dishonest in discharging other duties or infringes the rights of the participants, creditors or employees of the legal person.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.110. Powers of a liquidator\n\n\n1. The management bodies of a legal person shall lose their powers and the powers of participants of a legal person to conclude transactions shall pass to a liquidator as of the day of his appointment or, in cases specified in paragraph 5 of Article 2.108 of this Code, as of the entry into force of the decision on the liquidation of a legal person.\n\n\n2. A liquidator shall enjoy the rights and obligations of the management body of a legal person and shall be subject mutatis mutandis to the provisions of Chapter VII of this Book."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.111. Transactions of a legal person in liquidation\n\nA legal person in liquidation may conclude only those transactions which are related to the termination of the legal person\u2019s activities or which are provided for in the decision to liquidate the legal person.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.112. Notification about liquidation\n\n\n1. The person who has adopted a decision to liquidate a legal person must, in accordance with the procedure established in the incorporation documents of legal persons, make a public announcement thereof three times at intervals of at least thirty days or make a public announcement once and notify all creditors in writing. The notification must include all data listed in paragraph 1 of Article 2.44 of this Code.\n\n\n2. The Register of Legal Entities shall also be notified about the liquidation no later than on the first day of public announcement thereof in accordance with the procedure established in paragraph 3 of Article 2.66 of this Code.\n\n\n3. This Code or other laws of the Republic of Lithuania may lay down different rules for the notification about liquidation."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "CHAPTER IX\n\nFORCED SALE OF SHARES (RIGHTS, MEMBER SHARES)\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.115. Content of forced sale of shares (rights, member shares)\n\n\n1. The participants of a legal person listed in Article 2.116 of this Code shall have the right to file an application to the court requesting to sell, to the applying participant of a legal person, the rights of a participant of a legal person or the shares (member shares) of a legal person which are in possession of a legal person\u2019s participant (hereinafter: \u2018shares (rights, members shares)\u2019) whose actions are contrary to the goals of the legal person\u2019s activities and where there are no grounds to expect any changes in the said actions in the future.\n\n\n2. An action for the forced sale of shares (rights, member shares) shall be brought before a regional court according to the location of the registered office of a legal person. The court must notify the legal person whose shares (rights, member shares) are to be sold in a forced manner about the action and the judgments.\n\n\n3. Participation of a lawyer in the process of litigation of the parties to the given cases shall be compulsory.\n\n\n4. The participant of a legal person who has brought an action for the forced sale must apply to other participants of a legal person proposing to become co-claimants."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) one or several shareholders of a private limited liability company whose nominal value of shares held accounts for at least 1/3 of the authorised capital;\n\n\n2) one or several members of a partnership whose contributions account for at least 1/3 of all contributions to the partnership;\n\n\n3) one or several members of an agricultural company or co-operative society whose member share accounts for at least 1/3 of all member shares;\n\n\n4) one or several members of a small partnership whose contributions account for at least 1/3 of all contributions to the small partnership.\n\n\n2. A participant of a legal person shall have no right to file an application for forced sale of shares (rights, member shares) under the circumstances laid down in Article 2.115 of this Code where the incorporation documents of a legal person or contracts concluded by its participants provide for different rules of forced sale of shares (rights, member shares) and the said rules may apply.\n\n\n3. A participant of a legal person shall have no right to file an application for forced sale of shares (rights, member shares) where he is controlled by a legal person the shares (rights, member shares) whereof are to be sold in a forced manner.\n\n\n4. A participant of a legal person shall have no right to file an application for forced sale of shares (rights, member shares) where he himself is the legal person the shares (rights, member shares) whereof are"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.117. Restrictions on the transfer of title to shares (rights, member shares)\n\n\n1. A defendant shall have no right, without a claimant\u2019s consent, to sell or otherwise transfer the title to shares (rights, member shares), to pledge them or otherwise restrict the rights to them, as well as transfer or otherwise restrict the rights or the rights attached to the shares (member shares) from the day of adoption of the court judgment on the forced sale of shares (rights, member shares) unless the court decides otherwise. The court shall have the right to authorise the acts referred to in this paragraph if a plaintiff fails to give his consent to such acts.\n\n\n2. A defendant shall have no right to sell, except according to the provisions of this Section, or otherwise transfer the title to shares (rights, member shares), to pledge them or otherwise restrict the rights to them, as well as transfer or otherwise restrict the rights or the rights attached to the shares (rights, member shares) from the day of entry into force of the court judgment unless the court decides otherwise.\n\n\n3. The court that issued the judgment may, upon a plaintiff\u2019s request, prohibit a defendant from exercising his right to vote without the consent of the court or the plaintiff.\n\n\n4. The prohibitions established in paragraphs 1 and 3 of this Article shall be valid irrespective of the appeal against the court judgment."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.118. Appointment of experts\n\n\n1. Upon satisfaction of an action, the court must appoint experts to set the price of shares (rights, member shares).\n\n\n2. Experts must start their activities only after the court judgment becomes final. Experts must present a written report on the price of shares (rights, member shares) to the court and the parties to the case.\n\n\n3. Articles 2.127 to 2.130 of this Code must be applied mutatis mutandis.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.119. Setting of a price\n\n\n1. After the experts\u2019 report on the price of shares (rights, member shares) has been submitted, the court must issue an order on the setting of a price and determine who remiburses for the experts\u2019 work and other expenses borne. The court may decide that such expenses shall be reimbursed by a legal person.\n\n\n2. A separate appeal against the court order whereby a price is set may be lodged."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. After the court order on setting a price becomes final, the defendant must, within two weeks, transfer the title to his shares (member shares) to the plaintiff and the plaintiff must accept the shares (member shares) and pay the set price. The price must be paid upon the transfer of title to the shares (member shares) to the plaintiff. The transfer shall take place in the registered office of a legal person whose shares (member shares) are transferred or in some other place agreed upon by the plaintiff and the defendant.\n\n\n2. In the case of a forced sale of rights, the plaintiff must pay to the defendant the set price within two weeks from the date on which the court order on setting a price became final. The contribution of the plaintiff who has paid the set price shall be increased by the amount of the defendant\u2019s contribution and the legal person must issue to the plaintiff the documents certifying the increase of his contribution.\n\n\n3. Where the defendant fails to discharge his duty to transfer the title to his shares (member shares), a legal person must transfer the title to the shares (member shares) in the defendant\u2019s name and issue to the plaintiff the documents certifying the plaintiff\u2019s title to the shares (member shares) sold in a forced manner and declare the respective documents of the defendant invalid as well as make a public announcement thereof in the source prescribed by the legal acts. Upon receipt of the documents certifying the title to"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "the defendant invalid as well as make a public announcement thereof in the source prescribed by the legal acts. Upon receipt of the documents certifying the title to the shares (member shares), the plaintiff shall pay the price into the deposit account of a notary, bank or other credit institution.\n\n\n4. Where there are several plaintiffs, the shares (member shares) sold in a forced manner shall be allotted as proportionally as possible to the legal person\u2019s shares (member shares) held by the plaintiffs. In case of a forced sale of rights, the contributions of the plaintiffs shall be increased by the amount of the contribution that is as proportionate as possible to the amount of the contribution of each defendant."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. Where other participants of a legal person or persons hold a pre-emptive right to acquire the shares (rights, member shares) sold in a forced manner, the legal person, upon receipt of a final court order on setting a price, must make a proposal to the said persons to acquire the shares (rights, member shares) at the price set by the court. After the court judgment on the forced sale of shares (rights, member shares) becomes final, the defendant must notify the legal person about the persons who enjoy the pre-emptive right to acquire shares (rights, member shares) sold in a forced manner in accordance with the contracts concluded by the plaintiff.\n\n\n2. Upon receipt of a legal person\u2019s proposal to exercise the pre-emptive right, the persons must accept or reject the proposal in writing within thirty days. Where a person fails to reply to the said proposal, the proposal shall be deemed unaccepted.\n\n\n3. Upon the expiry of a thirty-day time limit, the legal person must notify the plaintiff and the defendant of the number of accepted shares (member shares) or whether the rights have been accepted. Upon receipt of the said notification, the defendant must transfer the title to the shares (member shares) to the persons specified in the notification and the title to the remaining shares (member shares) must be transferred to the plaintiff in accordance with the provisions of Article 2.120 of this Code. Shareholders or"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.122. Transfer of the voting right\n\n\n1. The persons listed in Article 2.116 of this Code shall have the right to file an application to the court requesting to reinstate the owner of shares (rights, member shares) in his right to vote in cases where the right to vote has been assigned to another person whose actions contradict the goals of a legal person and there are no grounds to expect any changes in the actions in the future.\n\n\n2. The owner of shares (rights, member shares) shall acquire the right to vote as of the day on which the court judgment has become final."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.123. Forced sale of shares (rights, member shares) due to the failure to properly exercise the rights\n\n\n1. Where the participants of a legal person listed in Article 2.116 of this Code fail to properly exercise the rights as participants of a legal person due to the actions of another participant of a legal person and there are no grounds to expect that such actions will cease in the future, the said participants may bring an action to the court requesting the participant of a legal person, whose actions obstruct the proper exercise of their rights, to purchase their shares (rights, member shares). In this case, paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 2.115 and Articles 2.116 to 2.121 of this Code shall apply mutatis mutandis.\n\n\n2. The participant of a legal person who is requested to purchase the plaintiff\u2019s shares (rights, member shares) must apply to other participants of a legal person with the proposal to become co-defendants.\n\n \n\n\nCHAPTER X\n\nINVESTIGATION INTO THE ACTIVITIES OF A LEGAL PERSON"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. The following persons shall be entitled to apply for an investigation into the activities of a legal person:\n\n\n1) one or several shareholders who hold or manage shares the nominal value of which accounts for at least 1/10 of the authorised capital;\n\n\n2) one or several members of a partnership whose contributions account for at least 1/10 of all contributions to the partnership;\n\n\n3) one or several members of a small partnership whose contributions account for at least 1/10 of all contributions to the small partnership;\n\n\n4) one or several members of an agricultural company or a co-operative society (co-operative) whose member shares account for at least 1/10 of all member shares;\n\n\n5) participants of a legal person, except for the participants of legal persons referred to in Articles 2.35 and 2.37 of this Code and the persons referred to in points 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this paragraph, who have at least 1/5 of all votes;\n\n\n6) persons as well as participants of a legal person who, according to incorporation documents or transactions concluded with legal persons, have been granted the said right.\n\n\n2. A public prosecutor shall also have the right to apply for an investigation into the activities of a legal person in order to protect public interests, including the cases where the activities of a legal person, its management bodies or their members are contrary to the public interests."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.126. Filing of an application\n\n\n1. An application for an investigation into the activities shall be filed with a regional court according to the location of the registered office of a legal person.\n\n\n2. An application may be filed only after a claimant has applied to the legal person (the legal person\u2019s management body or its member) with a request to terminate inappropriate activities and has granted a reasonable time limit to remedy the circumstances. A request, which either fails to specify inappropriate activities or bad faith in discharging the duties or give reasons why the activities are considered to be inappropriate, shall not be deemed to be an application.\n\n\n3. Participation of a lawyer shall be obligatory in drawing up a request and an application for an investigation into the activities. Representation of a claimant by a lawyer shall be obligatory in the course of proceedings concerning an investigation into the activities. Where an application for an investigation into the activities is filed by a public prosecutor acting in the public interest, the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply.\n\n\n4. Upon receipt of an application and after hearing the submissions of the parties, the court shall either make an order on the investigation into the activities of a legal person, if there are grounds for believing that the circumstances specified in Article 2.124 and paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 2.125 of this Code may be present, or reject the application."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.127. Appointment of experts\n\n\n1. The court may appoint any independent persons as experts, who have the necessary qualifications to carry out an investigation into the activities of a legal person and submit a written report on inappropriate activities, as well as to draw up guidelines for the application of measures specified in Article 2.131 of this Code.\n\n\n2. Prior to the appointment of experts, the court must make a proposal to the parties to reach a consensus on the appointment of specific experts. Once a consensus is reached, the court shall appoint the jointly chosen experts if they meet the requirements set in paragraph 1 of this Article. Where the parties fail to reach a consensus on the appointment of experts, the court shall appoint experts at its discretion from the list of proposed experts submitted by the parties. Each party shall submit a list containing at least ten experts and shall have the right to remove five experts from the list of the other party for whatever reasons, as well as to give their opinion as to compliance of the remaining five experts with the requirements set in paragraph 1 of this Article.\n\n\n3. The number of experts shall be established by the court with due regard to the scope of investigation into the activities of a legal person."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.129. Remuneration for experts\u2019 work\n\n\n1. The experts appointed by the court must notify the court about the terms of remuneration for their work and the reimbursement for work-related expenses. Where the court accepts the terms and amount of remuneration for work and reimbursement for expenses incurred, the court shall, without prior notification to the parties, determine the sum, which may not be less than 70 per cent of the amount of remuneration for work and reimbursement for expenses indicated by the experts. The claimant must pay the said sum into a special account of the court.\n\n\n2. Where the claimant fails to pay the sum indicated by the court into a special account of the court, the court shall not proceed with the application. In such cases, other parties to the case shall have the right to the reimbursement of court expenses incurred by them.\n\n\n3. Where the court does not accept the terms of remuneration for experts\u2019 work and reimbursement of expenses proposed by the experts, it shall appoint new experts after hearing the opinions of the parties."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) repeal the decisions taken by the bodies of the legal person;\n\n\n2) temporarily suspend the powers of members of the legal person\u2019s management bodies or remove a person from the legal person\u2019s management bodies;\n\n\n3) appoint provisional members of the legal person\u2019s management bodies;\n\n\n4) authorise non-implementation of certain provisions of incorporation documents;\n\n\n5) impose the amendment of certain provisions of incorporation documents;\n\n\n6) temporarily transfer the voting right of a member of the legal person\u2019s body to another person;\n\n\n7) oblige the legal person to take certain actions or refrain from them;\n\n\n8) liquidate the legal person and appoint a liquidator.\n\n\n2. Upon the appointment of a member of the management body, the court may determine his remuneration.\n\n\n3. A decision to liquidate a legal person may not be taken where such decision is contrary to the interests of other participants or employees of the legal person or contravenes the public interest. A decision to revoke decisions of the legal person\u2019s bodies may not be taken where the limitation period for bringing an action provided for by this Code or other laws has expired.\n\n\n4. The court must immediately notify the Register of Legal Entities about the decision adopted and its entry into force. In this case, paragraph 5 of Article 2.66 of this Code shall not apply."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "PART III\n\nAGENCY\n\n \n\n\nCHAPTER XI\n\nGENERAL PROVISIONS\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.132. Conclusion of transactions through agents\n\n\n1. Persons shall enjoy the right to enter into transactions through agents, except for those transactions which, due to their nature, may be entered into only personally, as well as other transactions provided for by law.\n\n\n2. Agency shall be possible on the basis of a transaction, law, court judgment or administrative act.\n\n\n3. Natural persons legally capable in the relevant area as well as legal persons may act as agents.\n\n \n\n\n4. Persons who act in their own name although in the interest of another person shall not be deemed to be agents (sales intermediaries, etc.)."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. A transaction concluded by one person (agent) in another person\u2019s (principal\u2019s) name, disclosing the fact of agency and without exceeding the rights conferred, shall directly create, modify and abolish the civil rights and obligations of a principal.\n\n\n2. The rights of an agent may also arise from the circumstances under which an agent acts (salesperson in retail trade, cashier, etc.). Where the behaviour of a person gives reasonable grounds for third persons to assume that he has appointed another person to act as his agent, transactions concluded by the said person in the principal\u2019s name shall be binding for the principal.\n\n\n3. Where, at the time of the transaction, the agent fails to inform that he acts in the name of and on behalf of the principal, the principal shall acquire the rights and assume the obligations arising from the transaction only if the other party to the transaction was in a position to understand, from the circumstances of the conclusion thereof, that the said transaction was concluded with an agent, or if the identity of the person with whom the transaction was concluded was of no importance to the said party.\n\n\n4. Where the validity of a transaction concluded through an agent is challenged due to a mistake, deceit, duress or threat, the existence or non-existence of the said facts shall be established with due regard to an agent\u2019s will.\n\n\n5. Where a transaction has been concluded as per"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "of the said facts shall be established with due regard to an agent\u2019s will.\n\n\n5. Where a transaction has been concluded as per principal\u2019s instructions, the  principal may not challenge its validity by arguing that at the time of the transaction the agent ignored certain circumstances if the principal was aware of the said circumstances or ignored them due to his own negligence.\n\n\n6. Where a transaction in the name of another person is concluded by a person who has not been authorised to do so, the principal shall bear the legal consequences thereof only when the principal approves the said transaction. Where this is the case, the other party to the transaction may request, in writing, to approve or not to approve the transaction within its established time limit, which may not be shorter than fourteen days. Where no reply has been received within the established time limit, the transaction shall be deemed not approved. The approval  of a transaction shall have a retroactive effect, i.e. it shall be deemed valid as of the day of its conclusion.\n\n\n7. The other party to the transaction that concluded a transaction with a person who was not authorised to do so may withdraw from the transaction prior to the approval of the transaction by the principal, except in cases where, at the moment of its conclusion, the said party was aware or ought to have been aware of the fact that he concluded the transaction with a person who was not granted the requisite authority.\n\n\n8. Where a transaction"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "to have been aware of the fact that he concluded the transaction with a person who was not granted the requisite authority.\n\n\n8. Where a transaction was concluded without due authorisation, the person who concluded the transaction shall be liable for his contractual obligations to the other party to the transaction, except in cases where the said party to the transaction was aware or ought to have been aware of the fact that the latter was not entitled to conclude the transaction.\n\n\n9. Where an agent acted in excess of his powers, but in the manner which gave a third person reasonable grounds to believe that he was concluding a transaction with a duly authorised agent, the transaction shall be binding on the principal, except in cases where the other party to the transaction was aware or ought to have been aware that the agent was exceeding his powers."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.134. Restriction imposed on an agent\u2019s rights to conclude transactions\n\n\n1. An agent may not conclude transactions in the principal\u2019s name either with himself or with the person whom he represents at the given time, as well as his spouse, parents, children or other close relatives. Such transactions, upon the principal\u2019s request, may be deemed null and void.\n\n\n2. Restrictions specified in paragraph 1 of this Article shall not be imposed in the cases where other laws provide otherwise and where an agent acts as a statutory agent.\n\n\n3. An agent may not conclude a transaction which the principal himself is not authorised to conclude.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.135. Conflict of interests\n\n\n1. Where, in violation of the rights conferred, an agent enters into a transaction which runs counter to the interests of the principal, such transaction may be deemed void at the request of the principal in the cases where a third person was aware or ought to have been aware of the conflict of interests.\n\n\n2. A person may not act simultaneously as an agent of both parties to the transaction. This provision, however, shall not apply in the cases where contractual obligations are performed as well as in the cases where both parties to the transaction express their will explicitly that the agent has to act in the interests of both parties."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.136. Legal effects of a transaction concluded in another person\u2019s name without express authorisation or in excess of authority\n\n\n1. A transaction which is concluded by a person in another person\u2019s name without express authorisation or in excess of his authority shall create, modify and abolish rights and obligations of a principal only in the case where, at a later date, the principal approves all or the part of the transaction which is in excess of his authority (paragraph 6 of Article 2.133 of this Code).\n\n\n2. The principal\u2019s approval of a transaction at a later date shall render the transaction valid as of the date of its conclusion.\n\n\n3. Upon conclusion of a transaction, which is not approved by the principal, under circumstances laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article, an agent must redress the damage incurred by a third person in the cases where the said third person was not aware, nor ought to have been aware, of the said circumstances."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.137. Power of attorney\n\n\n1. A power of attorney shall be a written document granted by a person (principal) to another person (authorised agent) to represent a principal in establishing and maintaining relations with third persons. A power of attorney may also be drawn up by means of information technology and granted by registering it in the Register of Powers of Attorney.\n\n\n2. An authorised agent whose rights in the power of attorney are not clearly defined shall be entitled to perform only those actions which are necessary for the protection of the principal\u2019s property and property interests as well as supervision of the principal\u2019s property."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.1371. Durable power of attorney\n\n\n1. Any natural person of full age and legal capacity may issue a durable power of attorney for handling his affairs related to the exercise of his property and personal non-property rights and obligations, should he be declared legally incapable in a certain area or of limited legal capacity in a certain area in the future.\n\n\n2. In his durable power of attorney, the person may:"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) indicate persons he wishes to be appointed as his guardians or curators by the court, should he be declared legally incapable in a certain area or of limited legal capacity in a certain area;\n\n\n2) indicate persons whom the court should not appoint as his guardians or curators, should he be declared legally incapable in a certain area or of limited legal capacity in a certain area;\n\n\n3) express his will concerning the place of residence (placement in a guardianship or care institution);\n\n\n4) designate a specific person to handle his affairs related to the exercise of his property and personal non-property rights and obligations;\n\n\n5) provide other instructions.\n\n\n3. Durable powers of attorney must be made in a notarial form and shall be registered in the Notarial Register and the Register of Legally Incapable Persons and Persons with Limited Legal Capacity. Notaries and consular officers of the Republic of Lithuania shall be entitled to attest durable powers of attorney. One copy of a durable power of attorney shall be handed in to the person issuing the durable power of attorney, while the other shall remain with the institution which has attested it. Information related to the issuing and the content of the durable power of attorney shall be deemed confidential until its entry into force.\n\n\n4. The durable power of attorney shall enter into force upon the entry into effect of the court judgment whereby a person is declared legally incapable in a certain area or a person is declared"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "attorney shall enter into force upon the entry into effect of the court judgment whereby a person is declared legally incapable in a certain area or a person is declared to be of limited legal capacity in a certain area, and shall be valid for the period specified in the durable power of attorney. Unless the durable power of attorney has a specific expiration date, it shall remain valid until the revocation of the court judgment whereby a person was declared legally incapable in a certain area or a person was declared to be of limited legal capacity in a certain area.\n\n\n5. Once the durable power of attorney enters into force, its provisions must be applied by all persons and institutions performing actions related to the exercise of the property and personal non-property rights and obligations of the person who has issued the durable power of attorney, except in the cases where, due to a change in circumstances, the application of the provisions of the durable power of attorney is clearly no longer in the interest of the person who has issued it. The fact that the durable power of attorney is no longer in the interest of the person who has issued it must be established by the court. Any interested persons or institutions performing actions related to the exercise of the property and personal non-property rights and obligations of the person who has issued the durable power of attorney shall have the right to apply to court for authorisation to refrain from acting in accordance with the durable power of attorney."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.1372. Registration of durable powers of attorney\n\n\n1. Durable powers of attorney attested by notaries and consular officers of the Republic of Lithuania shall be registered in the Register of Legally Incapable Persons and Persons with Limited Legal Capacity.\n\n\n2. Notaries and consular officers shall, in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Register of Legally Incapable Persons and Persons with Limited Legal Capacity, submit to the Register of Legally Incapable Persons and Persons with Limited Legal Capacity data on the issued, amended and revoked durable powers of attorney.\n\n\n3. The data on the issued durable power of attorney from the Register of Legally Incapable Persons and Persons with Limited Legal Capacity shall be transmitted to the court upon its request when judging matters related to the limitation of a person\u2019s legal capacity in a certain area or the declaration of legal incapacity of a person in a certain area."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.1373. Amending, supplementing and revoking of a durable power of attorney\n\n\n1. A person shall have the right to amend or supplement his power of attorney at any time by issuing a new durable power of attorney. A person shall have the right to revoke his durable power of attorney at any time.\n\n\n2. The durable power of attorney issued at a later time shall revoke the whole previous durable power of attorney or the part thereof which is contrary to the later durable power of attorney. \n\n\n3. A person may revoke his durable power of attorney by giving a notification of revocation to the notary or consular officer who has attested the durable power of attorney. The notification must be made in a notarial form."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.138. Attestation of the power of attorney by a notary\n\n\n1. The following powers of attorney must be attested by a notary:\n\n\n1) the power of attorney to conclude transactions which require a notarial form;\n\n\n2) the power of attorney to perform, on behalf of a natural person, the actions related to legal persons;\n\n\n3) the power of attorney granted by a natural person to manage, use or dispose of his immovable property.\n\n\n2. Powers of attorney attested by a notary shall be comparable to:\n\n\n1) powers of attorney of servicemen attested by the commanders (heads) of military units, formations, military establishments and military schools;\n\n\n2) powers of attorney of persons in places of imprisonment attested by the heads of the places of imprisonment;\n\n\n3) powers of attorney of long voyage seamen on the ships flying the flag of Lithuania attested by the captains of the said ships.\n\n\n3. Attestation of the power of attorney specified in point 2 of paragraph 1 of this Article shall not be required where it has been drawn up by a natural person by means of information technology and has been granted by registering it in the Register of Powers of Attorney and in other cases prescribed by law."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. Powers of attorney attested by a notary, powers of attorney comparable to those attested by a notary, as specified in paragraph 2 of Article 2.138 of this Code and powers of attorney set out in paragraph 2 of Article 2.139 of this Code must be registered in a public Register of Powers of Attorney. In addition, the Register of Powers of Attorney may, in accordance with the procedure established by the regulations of the said Register, contain other powers of attorney, drawn up by means of information technology and granted by registering them in the Register of Powers of Attorney.\n\n\n2. When registering the powers of attorney referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the Register of Powers of Attorney shall be provided with the data on the person who has granted the power of attorney, the agent, the person who has attested the power of attorney (except where, in the cases provided for in this Code, the power of attorney does not have to be and is not attested), the dates of attestation and expiration of the power of attorney, the content of the power of attorney and other data established by the regulations of the Register of Powers of Attorney.\n\n\n3. The data controller of the Register of Powers of Attorney shall be the Ministry of the Justice, and the data processor of the Register shall be designated by the Government.\n\n\n4. The data of the Register of Powers of Attorney shall be processed in accordance with the procedure established by the regulations of the"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "the Government.\n\n\n4. The data of the Register of Powers of Attorney shall be processed in accordance with the procedure established by the regulations of the Register of Powers of Attorney."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.139. Simplified attestation of the power of attorney\n\n\n1. A power of attorney given by a natural person to receive correspondence (namely, money orders and parcels), salaries, other payments related to employment relationships, pensions, benefits, and scholarships or for accessing public or administrative services may be attested by the organisation in which the natural person is employed or studies, the chairman of the association of owners of multi-apartment residential buildings, in the building belonging to which the natural person resides, the warden of the ward in the territory assigned to which the natural person resides, or the master of a seagoing ship engaged on a long-distance voyage.\n\n\n2. Attestation of a power of attorney referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall not be required where it is drawn up by a natural person by means of information technology and is granted by registering it in the Register of Powers of Attorney."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.140. Power of attorney granted by a legal person\n\n\n1. A power of attorney granted by a legal person shall be signed by the head thereof. A power of attorney that is drawn up by means other than information technology shall bear a seal of that legal person if the legal person is required to have it.\n\n\n2. Additional requirements for a power of attorney granted by a legal person may be prescribed by law.\n\n\n3. Provisions of Articles 2.176 to 2.185 of this Code shall apply to powers of attorney granted by profit-seeking (commercial) legal persons.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.141. Rights and obligations of a legal person conferred under the power of attorney\n\nA legal person may be granted a power of attorney to conclude only such transactions the right of conclusion whereof has been provided for in its incorporation documents."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.142. Term of the power of attorney\n\n\n1. The term of the power of attorney may be fixed or open-ended. Where the term of the power of attorney is not indicated, the power of attorney shall be valid for one year as of the day on which it was drawn up.\n\n\n2. The power of attorney, attested by a notary, to perform certain actions abroad, which does not specify its term, shall be valid until the person who granted the power of attorney revokes it.\n\n\n3. The power of attorney that fails to indicate the date when it was drawn up shall be deemed invalid.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.143. Right to request the power of attorney and its copy\n\nA third person with whom the principal concludes a transaction shall have the right to request an agent to produce the power of attorney granted to him and its copy, and, in the case of the power of attorney drawn up by means of information technology and granted by registering it in the Register of Powers of Attorney\u2013 the data identifying the power of attorney."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. An authorised agent must perform the acts that he has been authorised to perform. He may re-authorise another person to perform the said acts only in the cases where such right has been conferred upon him by the power of attorney he was granted or where he is compelled to do so by the circumstances in order to protect the interests of the principal. A re-authorised person shall enjoy the same rights and assume the same obligations as an agent in respect of the principal and the third persons.\n\n\n2. The power of attorney given by re-authorisation shall be granted in the same manner and form as the power of attorney which has been granted. \n\n\n3. The term of the power of attorney given by re-authorisation may not exceed the term of the power of attorney which formed the basis for granting it.\n\n\n4. A person who delegates his authority to another person must notify a principal thereof and supply the necessary data about the person who is delegated the authority. Where the authorised agent fails to discharge this obligation, he shall be liable for the actions of the person to whom he has delegated the authority as for his own actions. Where an authorised agent has been appointed under the principal\u2019s instructions, an agent shall not be liable for the authorised agent\u2019s actions, except in the cases where the agent was aware of the fact that the person who was appointed as an authorised agent was dishonest and unreliable but failed to notify the principal thereof."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.146. Right to revoke the power of attorney and re-authorisation and the right to waive them\n\n\n1. A principal shall have the right to revoke, at any time, the power of attorney, whereas an authorised agent \u2013 to waive it. Both a principal and an authorised agent may, at any time, revoke re-authorisation. The person who has been given the power of attorney by re-authorisation may, in his turn, waive it at any time. Where the power of attorney has been registered in the Register of Powers of Attorney, a request by a principal or an authorised agent for the termination of the power of attorney or re-authorisation may be made by means of information technology by registering the termination of the power of attorney or re-authorisation in the Register of Powers of Attorney in the manner provided for in the regulations of that Register.\n\n\n2. Laws or an agreement between the parties may provide for the cases in which an irrevocable power of attorney is granted."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.147. Expiry of the power of attorney\n\n\n1. A power of attorney shall expire:\n\n\n1) upon the expiry of the term of the power of attorney;\n\n\n2) upon the revocation of the power of attorney by a principal;\n\n\n3) upon the waiver of the power of attorney by an authorised agent;\n\n\n4) upon the termination of the legal person which has granted the power of attorney;\n\n\n5) upon the termination of the legal person to which the power of attorney has been granted, or upon the institution of bankruptcy proceedings against the said legal person;\n\n\n6) upon the death of the natural person who has granted the power of attorney, or upon the declaration of the natural person legally incapable or of limited legal capacity in the area in which the power of attorney has been granted, or upon the declaration of that natural person missing;\n\n\n7) upon the death of the natural person to whom the power of attorney has been granted or upon the declaration of the natural person legally incapable or of limited legal capacity in the area in which the power of attorney has been granted, or upon the declaration of that natural person missing."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "2. The data about the expiry of the term of the power of attorney must be submitted to the data processor of the Register of Powers of Attorney.\n\n\n3. Upon the expiry of the term of the power of attorney, power of re-authorisation shall likewise cease to have effect.\n\n\n4. The expiry of agency may not be used against third persons acting in good faith, except in cases where the said persons were aware of the fact of expiry of agency or ought to have become aware of it but failed to do so due to their own negligence."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.148. Obligation of a principal to notify about the expiry of the power of attorney\n\n\n1. A principal must notify an authorised agent and the third persons known to the authorised agent, for whom the power of attorney has been granted for the purpose of establishing and maintaining relations, about the revocation of the power of attorney specified in point 2 of paragraph 1 of Article 2.147 of this Code. Where the power of attorney expires on the basis of provisions laid down in points 4 and 6 of paragraph 1 of Article 2.147 of this Code, successors to the rights of the principal shall have the same obligation.\n\n\n2. Rights and obligations of a principal and successors to his rights, arising as a result of the authorised agent\u2019s actions prior to the date on which the said agent became aware or ought to have become aware of the expiry of the power of attorney, shall remain valid for the third persons. This provision shall not apply if the third person was aware or ought to have been aware of the expiry of the power of attorney.\n\n\n3. Upon the expiry of the power attorney, an authorised agent or successors to his rights must forthwith return the power of attorney to the principal or successors to his rights, except where the power of attorney has been drawn up by means of information technology and has been granted by registering it in the Register of Powers of Attorney."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.149. Subsidiary application of provisions regulating agency\n\nProvisions regulating agency respectively shall apply in the cases where a person whose affairs have been handled by another person without due authorisation approves the actions of the said person at a later date.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.150. Obligation of an agent to report\n\nAn agent must present a report to a principal about his activities and account to the principal for everything he has received in the performance of the mandate.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.151. Obligation of a principal to reimburse the expenses and offer remuneration\n\n\n1. A principal must reimburse the expenses incurred by the agent related to the performance of the mandate unless otherwise provided by the contract or laws.\n\n\n2. A principal must offer remuneration to the agent for his work, with the exception of the cases where laws or the contract provide for a free of charge agency.\n\n \n\n\nCHAPTER XII\n\nCOMMERCIAL AGENCY\n\n \n\n\nSECTION ONE\n\nCOMMERCIAL AGENT"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "SECTION ONE\n\nCOMMERCIAL AGENT\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.152. Concept of a commercial agent\n\n\n1. A commercial agent shall be an independent person whose main economic activity is to act, on a regular basis, for remuneration, as intermediary for a principal in conclusion of contracts or conclusion of contracts in the name of and at the expense of the principal. Bodies of a legal person and persons having the rights and duties of a body of the legal person, as well as partners acting in accordance with the agreement on joint activities (partnership) shall not be regarded as commercial agents.\n\n\n2. A principal and an agent may, in a mutual contract, establish only such conditions restricting competition which are not prohibited by the provisions of competition law.\n\n\n3. The contract may provide for an exemption, which grants a commercial agent an exclusive right to conclude contracts in the principal\u2019s name in a certain territory or with a certain group of consumers, where such exemption does not violate the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Article.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.153. Preconditions for the activities of a commercial agent\n\nPrior to commencing his activities, a commercial agent must insure his civil liability against possible damage which, as a result of his activities, may be incurred by the principal or the third persons."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.154. Establishment of the rights and obligations of a commercial agent\n\n\n1. The rights and obligations of a commercial agent may be established in writing or orally.\n\n\n2. At the request of a commercial agent or a principal, their contract must be concluded in writing. Waiver of the right to conclude the contract in writing shall be null and void.\n\n\n3. Only upon conclusion of a contract in writing, the following conditions shall be valid and shall establish:\n\n\n1) restrictions on the civil liability of an agent or a principal or complete exemption from civil liability;\n\n\n2) prohibition of competition after the contract has been terminated;\n\n\n3) conditions for the termination of a contract;\n\n\n4) exclusive rights of a commercial agent;\n\n\n5) dependence of a commercial agent\u2019s right to remuneration on the performance of the contract.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.155. Term of validity of a contract\n\n\n1. A contract between a commercial agent and a principal may be concluded for a fixed term or for an indefinite term.\n\n\n2. Where a contract has been concluded for a fixed term and where, upon the expiry of the given term, the parties continue to exercise their rights and discharge their obligations, the contract shall be considered renewed for an indefinite term under the same conditions."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.156. Obligations of a commercial agent\n\nA commercial agent must:\n\n\n1) carry out in good faith and with due care all assignments and reasonable instructions given by a principal, be loyal to the principal and act solely in the principal\u2019s interests;\n\n\n2) notify, on a regular basis, the principal about contracts which are being or have been concluded, and supply other important information related to his own and the principal\u2019s business;\n\n\n3) protect the commercial secrets of the principal, both during the term of validity of a contract and upon its expiry;\n\n\n4) avoid competition with the principal, where such condition has been set in the contract;\n\n\n5) compensate for the losses incurred by the principal;\n\n\n6) upon the expiry of a contract, return to the principal all documents, property and other things which were handed over by the principal."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. A principal shall remunerate a commercial agent for every successfully concluded transaction as provided for in the agency contract. The commercial agent shall also be entitled to remuneration where a transaction has been concluded by the principal himself but owing to the activities of the commercial agent, even in the event that the transaction has been concluded after the expiry of the agency relationship.\n\n\n2. A contract may provide that the commercial agent\u2019s remuneration is dependent on how successfully the principal\u2019s instructions have been carried out or that the commercial agent is offered remuneration only in the cases where the third person has performed the contract. A commercial agent shall also be offered remuneration for the sums of money recovered from third persons for the benefit of the principal.\n\n\n3. Where a commercial agent gives a guarantee to the principal that the other party to a particular transaction will perform the transaction properly, the commercial agent shall be entitled to an additional remuneration (del credere). Agreement of the parties to abolish the given right of a commercial agent shall be null and void. The right to additional remuneration (del credere) shall arise upon the proper performance of the contract.\n\n\n4. Where remuneration of a commercial agent is not provided for in the contract, he must be offered the remuneration which is paid to commercial agents employed in the sphere of the said commercial agent\u2019s activities, and for the goods which are provided for in"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "which is paid to commercial agents employed in the sphere of the said commercial agent\u2019s activities, and for the goods which are provided for in the agency contract, whereas in the absence of such practice, the commercial agent shall be entitled to a reasonable remuneration, determined by taking into consideration all peculiarities of the transaction."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.159. Determination of the amount of remuneration of a commercial agent\n\n\n1. The amount of remuneration shall be specified in the contract between a commercial agent and a principal, either as a specific sum of money or as a percentage of the transaction value or the amount recovered.\n\n\n2. A commercial agent must also be reimbursed for any additional expenses incurred by him if the other party to the transaction failed to cover them  (transportation of goods, warehousing, storage and packaging expenses, customs duties paid, as well as other dues and fees, etc.) and these expenses are not included into the expenses of the commercial agent\u2019s independent activities.\n\n\n3. Where the remuneration of a commercial agent is expressed in a specific amount, Article 2.160 of this Code shall apply inasmuch as it does not contradict the essence of the agreement on the commercial agent\u2019s remuneration expressed in a specific amount."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. A commercial agent shall acquire the right to remuneration as of the moment of conclusion of a transaction on condition that the principal has performed the transaction or should have performed the transaction in accordance with the contract concluded with the third party, or the third party has performed the transaction, but, in all cases, at the latest when the third party has performed its part of the contract, or would have done so if the principal had performed his part of the contract.\n\n\n2. Where a contract provides that the remuneration to a commercial agent is paid only after a third person has performed a contract, the commercial agent shall be entitled to an advance payment. An advance payment may not be less than 40 per cent of the remuneration and must be paid no later than on the last day of the month following the month in which the contract is concluded, except as otherwise provided in the contract.\n\n\n3. Where it is obvious that the third person will fail to perform a contract, a  commercial agent shall forfeit the right to request remuneration. Where the remuneration has already been paid or an advance payment has been made, the principal shall have the right to recover the sums paid from the commercial agent. The given provision shall not apply where the principal is at fault for failure to enforce the contract.\n\n\n4. A principal must remunerate a commercial agent on a monthly basis and no later than on the last day of the month following the accounting"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "A principal must remunerate a commercial agent on a monthly basis and no later than on the last day of the month following the accounting period. The parties may, by written agreement, extend the term of payment, but no longer than for three months from the last day of the accounting period.\n\n\n5. Every month, or at least every three months where agreed in writing, a principal must submit to a commercial agent the accounting documents, the data of which serves as the basis for calculation and payment of remuneration, as well as inform a commercial agent about any circumstances leading to a refusal to pay the commercial agent\u2019s remuneration or to a reduction in the remuneration.\n\n\n6. In the event of a dispute related to the payment of remuneration, a commercial agent shall have the right to request an audit to determine the accuracy of remuneration and payments. Waiver of the right to audit shall be null and void. Where a principal refuses to allow an audit to be carried out or in the event of disagreement about the auditor, the commercial agent shall have the right to file a request with the court for the mandatory appointment of an audit.\n\n\n7. Claims for recovery of a commercial agent\u2019s remuneration shall be subject to a three-year limitation period.\n\n\n8. Where a commercial agent has been granted an exclusive right to conclude contracts in a certain territory or with certain consumers, a commercial agent shall be entitled to"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Where a commercial agent has been granted an exclusive right to conclude contracts in a certain territory or with certain consumers, a commercial agent shall be entitled to payment by commission, which is calculated by taking into account the transactions concluded within the period of validity of the agency contract with the persons from the said territory or the said consumers.\n\n\n9. A commercial agent shall also be entitled to payment by commission in the cases where the order of the third party has reached the principal prior to the expiry of the agency contract or within a reasonable period of time after the expiry of the agency contract and the transaction is related to the agency contract."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.161. Right of retention\n\n\n1. A commercial agent shall have the right to retain the principal\u2019s things which are in his possession and the documents confirming the rights to them until the principal pays the remuneration to the commercial agent.\n\n\n2. Waiver of the right to retention shall be null and void.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.162. Rights of a commercial agent\n\n\n1. A commercial agent shall have the right to perform, in the name of the principal, any actions necessary for the proper execution of the principal\u2019s instruction, without the principal\u2019s special authority. A commercial agent shall have the right to alter provisions of the contract and accept the performance of the contract only in the cases where the given right has been specifically provided for in the agency contract or in a separate power of attorney.\n\n\n2. Even though a commercial agent is not vested with authority to conclude contracts, he shall be vested with authority to receive claims related to the quantity and quality of goods as well as other statements from third persons in connection with the performance of the contract, and to exercise, in the principal\u2019s name, the latter\u2019s rights in relation to preserving evidence."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.163. Liability for obligations arising under contracts concluded by a commercial agent\n\n\n1. Where a commercial agent, acting in the principal\u2019s name, concludes a contract without authority to do so and where the other party to the transaction did not know and could not have known about it, the principal shall be considered to have approved the contract if he, upon notification about the said contract by the commercial agent or the third person, has failed to inform, without delay, the third person of his disapproval thereof.\n\n\n2. The provision of paragraph 1 of this Article shall also apply in the cases where a commercial agent acts outside his authority."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) a principal has terminated the contract without the consent of a commercial agent whereby violating the term of prior notification about the termination of the contract, or has failed to notify the commercial agent without delay about important reasons for the termination thereof;\n\n\n2) a commercial agent has terminated the contract for important reasons for which the principal is held liable and has notified the principal about those reasons without delay;\n\n\n3) the contract between a principal and a commercial agent has been terminated by a court judgment for reasons for which the principal is held liable.\n\n\n7. The court shall have authority, upon a commercial agent\u2019s request, to declare full or partial invalidity of the contractual clause on the prohibition of competition where, taking into consideration the commercial agent\u2019s legitimate interests, the said clause causes him serious damage.\n\n\n8. Agreements which are in conflict with the provisions of this Article and aggravate the situation of the commercial agent shall be null and void."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) a one month\u2019s notice, where the contract was valid for no more than one year;\n\n\n2) a two months\u2019 notice, where the contract was valid for no more than two years;\n\n\n3) a three months\u2019 notice, where the contract was valid for no more than three years;\n\n\n4) a four months\u2019 notice, where the contract was valid for more than three years.\n\n\n2. The parties may not establish shorter time limits for notification by agreement but may establish longer time limits for notification; in all cases, however, the same time limits for notification shall apply to both parties. The notification must be made by the end of a calendar month.\n\n\n3. The party who has terminated a contract without the other party\u2019s consent and has violated the time limits for prior notification must compensate the other party for the losses incurred by its actions, except in the cases where the contract has been terminated for compelling reasons, of which the other party has been notified without delay.\n\n\n4. Unless otherwise agreed upon by the parties, the last day of notification and the day of termination of a contract must coincide with the end of a calendar month.\n\n\n5. Where the term of an agency contract has expired and the fixed period contract has become a contract for an indefinite period, the time limits for notification laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article, which include the term of validity of a fixed period"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.167. Right to compensation and damages\n\n\n1. Upon the expiry of a contract between a commercial agent and a principal, the commercial agent shall be entitled to compensation under paragraph 2 of this Article unless the parties have agreed that, upon the expiration of the contract, the commercial agent shall be entitled to damages under paragraph 6 of this Article. Waiver of the right to compensation or damages shall be null and void.\n\n\n2. A commercial agent shall be entitled to compensation where:"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) upon the termination of the contract, the principal benefits substantially from business relationships with clients who have been found by the commercial agent or with whom, because of the commercial agent, the volume of the principal\u2019s business has increased significantly; and\n\n\n2) taking into consideration all circumstances, the payment of compensation would be in line with the principle of justice.\n\n\n3. The maximum amount of compensation shall be the average annual amount of a commercial agent\u2019s remuneration, calculated for the entire term of validity of the contract where the contract was valid for no more than five years. Where the contract was valid more than five years, the average annual amount of remuneration for the last five years shall be calculated. Payment of compensation shall not abolish the right of the commercial agent to claim damages for the breach of the contract.\n\n\n4. A commercial agent shall be divested of the right to compensation where, during the period of one year after the expiration of the contract, he fails to inform the principal about his intention to exercise such right.\n\n\n5. A commercial agent shall not be entitled to compensation where:"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) the contract has been terminated on the commercial agent\u2019s initiative, except in the cases where the commercial agent terminates the contract due to the unlawful actions of the principal or due to his illness, age or disability which prevent him from discharging his obligations properly;\n\n\n2) the contract has been terminated on the principal\u2019s initiative due to the fault of the commercial agent;\n\n\n3) the commercial agent, with the principal\u2019s consent, transfers his rights and obligations stipulated in the agency contract to another person.\n\n\n6. A commercial agent shall have the right to claim damages for the termination of the contract with the principal, in particular where the commercial agent loses the commission which he would have received as a result of the proper performance of an agency contract and the principal derives substantial benefit from the commercial agent\u2019s activities, and/or where the principal fails to reimburse the expenses incurred by the commercial agent in the course of carrying out the instructions of the principal. In the event of damages being awarded, paragraphs 4 and 5 of this Article shall apply."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.169. Scope\n\n\n1. Provisions of this Section shall apply only in the cases where both of the following conditions are met:\n\n\n1) an international contract for the sale of goods is concluded and executed;\n\n\n2) the principal and the third person reside in different states.\n\n\n2. Provisions of this Section shall apply only to the relationship between a principal and a commercial agent, on the one hand, and the third person, on the other.\n\n\n3. Provisions of this Section shall not apply to:\n\n\n1) shares or other securities traded on the stock exchange;\n\n\n2) commodities sold by auction;\n\n\n3) activities of statutory representatives as well as activities of representatives appointed by a decision of the court or an administrative institution.\n\n\n4. For the purposes of this Section, the management bodies or employees of a legal person shall not be deemed to be agents if they act act without overstepping the authority prescribed by law or the incorporation documents of the legal person."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.170. Rights and obligations of an agent\n\n\n1. The rights and obligations of an agent may be express or implied in specific circumstances.\n\n\n2. An agent shall be vested with authority to perform any acts which, under specific circumstance, are necessary to carry out properly the instructions of the principal.\n\n\n3. The rights and obligations of an agent may be expressed in any form and any means of proof may be used to prove their content."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.171. Validity of transactions concluded by an agent\n\n\n1. Where an agent acts in the name and on behalf of a principal without overstepping his authority and where the third person knew or ought to have known that he was concluding the contract with an agent, the principal shall acquire the rights and assume the obligations arising under the contract.\n\n\n2. A contract concluded by an agent shall create rights and obligations for the agent and not for the principal where:"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) the third person did not know nor ought to have known that the contract was being concluded with an agent (undisclosed agency);\n\n\n2) specific circumstances (e.g. a reference to the contract) confirm that the agent intended to acquire rights and obligations for himself and not for the principal.\n\n\n3. Notwithstanding the circumstances laid down in paragraph 2 of this Article, the principal may exercise the rights acquired by the agent in relation to the third person where the agent fails to discharge his obligations to the principal, taking into consideration the right of the third person to use remedies against the agent. Where the agent fails to discharge his obligations to the third person, the said person shall have the right to exercise his rights in relation to the principal, acquired against the agent, taking into consideration the right of the agent to use remedies against the third person as well as the right of the principal to use remedies against the agent.\n\n\n4. The rights provided for in paragraph 3 of this Article may be exercised if the principal, the agent and the third person have been respectively notified thereof. Upon receipt of the said notification, the third person or the principal may not waive the obligations linking them to the agent.\n\n\n5. Where an agent fails to discharge his obligations to the third person through a principal\u2019s fault, the agent must reveal the principal\u2019s name to the third person.\n\n\n6. Where the third person fails to discharge his obligations to the"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "the agent must reveal the principal\u2019s name to the third person.\n\n\n6. Where the third person fails to discharge his obligations to the agent, the agent must reveal the third person\u2019s name to the principal.\n\n\n7. A principal may not exercise the rights acquired by the agent in relation to the third person where the third person proves that he would not have concluded the contract if he had known who the principal was."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.172. Conclusion and execution of a contract without due authority or outside one\u2019s authority\n\n\n1. Where a person acts without due authority or outside his authority, his actions shall have no legal effects for the principal. In such cases, the rights and obligations of the said person and the third person shall arise.\n\n\n2. Provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article shall not apply in cases where the conduct of the principal has given reasonable grounds for the third person  to believe in good faith that the agent had due authority and was acting within it."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. A principal shall have the right to approve the actions taken by the person who was not authorised to do so or acted outside his authority. Approval may be granted in any form. In addition, approval may be implied in a principal\u2019s behaviour. Approval shall enter into force as of the moment of its receipt by the third person. Approval may not be revoked once it has entered into force.\n\n\n2. Where, at the moment of entering into the transaction, the third person did not know and could not have known that the agent was not vested with authority or acted outside it, the third person shall not be liable to the principal if, prior to the approval of the agent\u2019s actions, he notifies the principal that the transaction is not binding on him even after it has been approved. Where the principal approves the actions of the agent but fails to do so within a reasonable time limit, the third person may withdraw from the transaction upon immediate notification thereof to the principal.\n\n\n3. Where, at the time of entering into a transaction, the third person knew or ought to have known that the agent was not vested with authority or acted outside it, the third person may not withdraw from the transaction, either prior to the approval of the agent\u2019s actions or thereafter.\n\n\n4. The third person may, in all cases, refuse to accept only a partial approval of the agent\u2019s actions.\n\n\n5. Where the"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "The third person may, in all cases, refuse to accept only a partial approval of the agent\u2019s actions.\n\n\n5. Where the agent has performed actions in the interests of a future legal person prior to the incorporation of the legal person, such actions may be approved only in the cases prescribed by law."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.174. Legal consequences of a failure to approve an agent\u2019s actions\n\n\n1. Where a person has acted without due authority or outside his authority and the principal has refused to approve his actions, the person must compensate the third person for such losses as would enable the third person to be restored to the position in which he would have been if the agent had possessed the due authority or had acted without overstepping his authority.\n\n\n2. A person shall not be liable to the third person where the third person knew or ought to have known that the person was not vested with authority or acted outside it."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.175. Termination of an agent\u2019s authority\n\n\n1. Authority of an agent shall be terminated:\n\n\n1) upon agreement between the principal and the agent;\n\n\n2) upon conclusion of the transaction or performance of any other action for which the authority was granted;\n\n\n3) where a principal divests the agent of the rights he was granted;\n\n\n4) where the agent waives the rights he was granted;\n\n\n5) in other cases provided for by this Code.\n\n\n2. Termination of an agent\u2019s authority shall not affect the authority of the third person, except in the cases where the third person knew or ought to have known about the termination of the agent\u2019s authority, or about the circumstances which formed the basis for the termination thereof.\n\n\n3. Notwithstanding the termination of an agent\u2019s authority, the agent shall have the right to perform, in the interests of the principal or the principal\u2019s successors, such actions as are necessary to avoid damage to the interests of the principal or the principal\u2019s successors.\n\n \n\n\nSECTION THREE\n\nPROCURACY"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "SECTION THREE\n\nPROCURACY\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.176. Concept of procuracy\n\n\n1. Procuracy shall be a power of attorney which a legal person (trader) grants to his employee or other person to perform, in the name of and on behalf of a principal, all legal acts relating to the business of the legal person (trader).\n\n\n2. In addition, procuracy shall grant the right to perform, in the name of and on behalf of the principal, legal acts in the court or other non-judicial institutions.\n\n\n3. A person who is issued procuracy shall be a procurator.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.177. Issuance of procuracy\n\n\n1. Procuracy shall be issued by a respective management body of a legal person or the owner of a legal person or a person authorised by him in accordance with the procedure established in the incorporation documents of the legal person.\n\n\n2. Procuracy may be issued to several persons (joint procuracy). In such a case, all procurators must act together.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.178. Form of procuracy\n\n\n1. Procuracy must be issued in writing and signed by a person vested with authority to issue procuracy.\n\n\n2. Procuracy must be registered in accordance with the procedure prescribed by law."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.179. Rights of a procurator\n\n\n1. A procurator shall not have the right to perform and he may not be authorised to perform the following acts:\n\n\n1) to transfer an immovable thing (enterprise) of the principal or  encumber the rights to it;\n\n\n2) to sign the balance sheet and tax return of the principal;\n\n\n3) to institute bankruptcy proceedings of the principal;\n\n\n4) to issue procuracy;\n\n\n5) to accept interest holders into an enterprise;\n\n\n2. A procurator shall not have the right to delegate his authority to another person.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.180. Restrictions on procuracy\n\n\n1. Procuracy may be restricted. Procuracy may be restricted to a branch office of a legal person, respective fields and types of a legal person\u2019s activities, certain circumstances, time or territory.\n\n\n2. Restrictions on procuracy specified in paragraph 1 of this Article shall have no effect on the third persons."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.181. Entering into force of procuracy\n\n\n1. Procuracy establishing the relationship between a principal and a procurator shall enter into force as of the moment of its issuance.\n\n\n2. Procuracy establishing the relationship between a procurator and the third persons shall enter into force as of the moment of its registration in accordance with the procedure prescribed by law.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.182. Signature of a procurator\n\nWhen signing documents in a principal\u2019s name, a procurator must indicate that he is acting as a procurator, i.e. to include the word \u201cprocurator\u201d or its abbreviation \u201cpp\u201d.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 2.183. Liability of a procurator\n\nA procurator shall be liable to a principal and the third persons in the same manner as a commercial agent."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.184. Termination of procuracy\n\n\n1. Procuracy shall be terminated when:\n\n\n1) a principal revokes it;\n\n\n2) a procurator waives it;\n\n\n3) a principal has been instituted bankruptcy proceedings;\n\n\n4) a legal person which has issued the procuracy is liquidated or reorganised;\n\n\n5) a procurator is dead, or has been declared legally incapable in the area in which procuracy has been issued, or declared to be of limited legal capacity in the area in which procuracy has been issued, or has been declared an absentee.\n\n\n2. Procuracy shall be terminated upon its removal from the Register of Powers of Attorney, with the exception of the cases laid down in points 4 and 5 of paragraph 1 of this Article."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 2.185. Acts performed without procuracy\n\n\n1. A principal may instruct his employees to perform acts which are routine and customary in a certain field of business without issuance of procuracy. In such cases, provisions of this Code regulating procuracy shall apply by analogy.\n\n\n2. It shall be presumed that employees working in a shop or a warehouse have the right to sell, issue or receive goods, as well as to accept claims concerning the quantity and quality of goods, without a special authorisation.\n\n\n3. When signing documents in the name of a principal, the employees specified in this Article must indicate their capacity, name, family name and authority.\n\n\n \n\n\nBOOK THREE\n\nFAMILY LAW\n\n \n\n\nPART I\n\nGENERAL PROVISIONS\n\n \n\n\nCHAPTER I\n\nFAMILY LAWS"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "PART I\n\nGENERAL PROVISIONS\n\n \n\n\nCHAPTER I\n\nFAMILY LAWS\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.1. Relationships governed by Book Three of the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania\n\n\n1. The provisions of Book Three of the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania shall define the general principles of the legal regulation of family relationships and govern the grounds and procedures for entering into marriage, validity and dissolution of marriage, property and non-property personal rights of spouses, filiation, mutual rights and responsibilities between children, parents as well as other family members, the basic provisions on adoption, guardianship, curatorship and on the procedures of registering acts of civil status.\n\n\n2. The provisions of other Books of the Civil Code, as well as the provisions of other civil laws, shall apply to family relationships to the extent that they are not regulated by the provisions of this Book."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.2. Sources of family law\n\n\n1. Family relationships shall be governed by the Constitution, the Civil Code and other laws of the Republic of Lithuania as well as by the international treaties of the Republic of Lithuania.\n\n\n2. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania or other state institutions may adopt legal acts on family law matters only in the cases and to the extent provided for by this Code or other laws.\n\n\n3. Customs shall apply to family relationships only in cases provided for by law. Where there is a contradiction between the law and the custom, the law shall prevail.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.3. Principles of the legal regulation of family relationships\n\n\n1. In the Republic of Lithuania, the legal regulation of family relationships shall be based on the principles of monogamy, voluntary marriage, equality of spouses, priority of protecting and safeguarding the rights and interests of children, upbringing of children in the family, mutual complementarity of motherhood and fatherhood, comprehensive protection of motherhood and other principles of the legal regulation of civil relationships.\n\n\n2. Family laws and their application must ensure the strengthening of the family and its significance in society, mutual responsibility of family members for the preservation of the family and upbringing of children, the possibility for all family members to properly exercise their rights and protect minors from the undue influence of other family members or other persons and any other factors."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.4. Analogy of statute or law\n\n\n1. Where family relationships are not governed by this Book or other Books of the Civil Code, they shall be governed by the provisions of other civil laws applicable to similar legal relations. The application by analogy of special legal provisions stipulating derogations from the general rules shall be prohibited.\n\n\n2. Where it is not possible to apply statute by analogy and also where the resolution of the matter is left to judicial discretion, the rights and duties of the subjects of family relationships shall be determined on the basis of the principle of justice, good faith, reasonableness and other general principles of law.\n\n\n3. Where there are no mandatory rules of law, also in the cases provided for by this Code and other laws, the subjects of family relationships may determine their rights and duties by mutual agreement in accordance with the principles established in paragraph 2 of this Article and Article 3.3 of this Code."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.5. Implementation and protection of family rights\n\n\n1. Persons shall be free to implement and exercise their family rights at their own discretion, including the right to the protection of family rights. A waiver from a family right or its implementation shall not abolish the right, except in cases provided for by law.\n\n\n2. In exercising family rights and performing family duties, persons must comply with the law, respect the rules of community life, observe the principles of good morals and act in good faith.\n\n\n3. It shall be prohibited to abuse family rights, i. e. it shall be prohibited to exercise them in such a way and by such means which would violate or restrict other persons\u2019 rights or interests protected by law, or would inflict harm on other persons. If a person abuses a family right, the court may refuse to protect it.\n\n\n4. Family rights shall be protected by the court, institutions of guardianship and curatorship as well as other governmental or non-governmental bodies in the ways provided for by this Code. Courts and other institutions must seek that the parties to a dispute resolve their dispute peacefully by mutual agreement and must assist the parties in every possible way to reach such an agreement."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.6. Limitation period\n\n\n1. Claims arising from legal family relationships shall be subject to statutory limitations, except for the exemptions provided for in this Book.\n\n\n2. The procedure for the calculation, suspension, termination or restoration of limitation periods shall be stipulated in the rules of Book One of this Code unless this Book provides for different rules.\n\n \n\n\nPART II\n\nMARRIAGE\n\n \n\n\nCHAPTER II\n\nFORMATION OF MARRIAGE\n\n \n\n\nSECTION ONE\n\nAGREEMENT TO MARRY AND ITS LEGAL CONSEQUENCES\n\n \n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.7. Concept of marriage\n\n\n1. Marriage shall be a voluntary agreement between a man and a woman to establish a legal family relationship executed in accordance with the procedure provided for by law.\n\n\n2. A man and a woman who have registered their marriage in accordance with the procedure provided for by law shall be deemed to be spouses."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.8. Agreement to marry (engagement)\n\n\n1. An agreement to marry shall not be binding and may not be enforced by coercion, although it may give rise to legal consequences set out in Articles 3.9 to 3.11 of this Code.\n\n\n2. An agreement to marry may be expressed orally or in writing.\n\n\n3. An application for the registration of marriage filed in accordance with the procedure laid down in the law regulating the registration of acts of civil status shall be deemed to be a public agreement to marry.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.9. Return of gifts\n\n\n1. Where the engagement is terminated, both parties to the public agreement to marry shall have the right to demand that the other party return everything he or she has received from the other party as a gift in consideration of the intended marriage, except where the value of the gift is under three hundred euros or where the party who had received a gift died before the registration of the marriage and the marriage has not been contracted due to the death of one of the parties.\n\n\n2. Claims for the return of gifts shall be governed by the rules of Book Six of this Code regulating the relations pertaining to unjust enrichment or acquisition of assets not due.\n\n\n3. An action for the return of a gift may be brought within a limitation period of one year from the date of the refusal to enter into marriage."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.10. Compensation for damages\n\n\n1. The party to the agreement to marry that has refused to contract the marriage without sufficient reason must compensate the other party for the losses incurred as a result of the failure to adhere to the agreement to marry.\n\n\n2. The damages shall include the actual expenses of the party in preparation to marry and the actual expenses incurred in the discharge of the obligations related to the intended marriage.\n\n\n3. Where a party refuses to marry due to substantive reasons that have emerged through the fault of the other party, the party at fault must pay damages in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article.\n\n\n4. Claims for damages shall be subject to a limitation period of one year from the date of the refusal to enter into marriage.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.11. Compensation for non-pecuniary damage\n\n\n1. Where the parties made a public agreement to marry, the party entitled to damages under Article 3.10 of this Code may also claim compensation for non-pecuniary damage.\n\n\n2. An action for compensation of non-pecuniary damage may be brought within a limitation period of one year from the date of the refusal to enter into marriage.\n\n \n\n\nSECTION TWO\n\nCONDITIONS FOR CONTRACTING A MARRIAGE"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "SECTION TWO\n\nCONDITIONS FOR CONTRACTING A MARRIAGE\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.12. Prohibition of same-sex marriage\n\nMarriage may be contracted only with a person of the opposite sex.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.13. Voluntary nature of marriage\n\n\n1. Marriage shall be contracted by a man and a woman of their own free will.\n\n\n2. Any threat, coercion, deceit or other lack of free will shall provide a basis for declaring the marriage null and void."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.14. Legal age of consent to marriage\n\n\n1. Marriage may be contracted by persons who by or on the date of contracting a marriage have attained the age of eighteen.\n\n\n2. At the request of a person who intends to marry before the age of eighteen, the court may, in a summary procedure, reduce for him/her the legal age of consent to marriage, but by no more than two years.\n\n\n3. In the case of pregnancy, the court may allow the person to marry before the age of sixteen.\n\n\n4. While deciding on the reduction of a person\u2019s legal age of consent to marriage, the court must hear the opinion of the minor\u2019s parents or guardians or curators and take into account his or her mental and psychological state, financial situation and other important reasons that require the reduction of the person\u2019s legal age of consent to marriage. Pregnancy shall provide an important ground for the reduction of the person\u2019s legal age of consent to marriage.\n\n\n5. In the process of deciding on the reduction of the legal age of consent to marriage, the state institution for the protection of the child\u2019s rights must present its opinion on the advisability of the reduction of the person\u2019s legal age of consent to marriage and whether such a reduction is in the interests of the minor concerned."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.15. Active capacity\n\n\n1. A person who has, by a final court judgment, been declared legally incapable in this area may not enter into marriage.\n\n\n2. A person with limited legal capacity in this area may not enter into marriage without a written consent of the curator. Where the curator does not give his or her consent, the consent to contract a marriage may be given by the court at the request of a person with limited legal capacity in this area.\n\n\n3. Where it transpires that there is a case pending before a court for the declaration of one of the parties to an intended marriage to be legally incapable in this area, the registration of the marriage must be postponed until the judgment of the court in the case becomes final.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.16. Prohibition to violate the principle of monogamy\n\nA married person who has not terminated his or her marriage in accordance with the procedure laid down by law may not enter into another marriage.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.17. Prohibition to contract a marriage between close relatives\n\nMarriage between parents and children, adopters and adoptees, grandparents and grandchildren, real or foster brothers and real or foster sisters, cousins, uncles and nieces, and aunts and nephews shall be prohibited.\n\n \n\n\nSECTION THREE\n\nFORMATION OF MARRIAGE"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "SECTION THREE\n\nFORMATION OF MARRIAGE\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.18. FORMATION OF MARRIAGE\n\nMarriage shall be formed upon filing, by the intended spouses, an application to register a marriage and registering the marriage in accordance with the procedure laid down in the law regulating the registration of acts of civil status or in accordance with Article 3.24 of this Code.\n\n \n\nArticle 3.19. No longer effective from 1 January 2017.\n\n \n\nArticle 3.20. No longer effective from 1 January 2017.\n\n \n\nArticle 3.21. No longer effective from 1 January 2017.\n\n \n\nArticle 3.22. No longer effective from 1 January 2017.\n\n \n\nArticle 3.23. No longer effective from 1 January 2017."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.24. Formation of religious marriages in accordance with the procedure established by the Church (confessions)\n\n\n1. A religious marriage shall be formed in accordance with the procedure established by the internal law (canons) of the respective religion.\n\n\n2. The formation of a marriage in accordance with the procedure established by the Church (confessions) shall entail the same legal consequences as the formation of a marriage in the register office in accordance with the procedure established by the law regulating the registration of acts of civil status provided that:"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1) the conditions laid down in Articles 3.12 to 3.17 of this Code have not been violated;\n\n\n2) the marriage has been formed in accordance with the procedures established by the canons of a religious organisation registered in the Republic of Lithuania and recognised by the State;\n\n\n3) the formation of a marriage in accordance with the procedure established by the Church (confessions) has been recorded at the register office pursuant to the procedure established by the law regulating the registration of acts of civil status.\n\n\n3. Where a marriage has been formed in accordance with the procedure established by the Church (confessions), the religious community or religious association must, within ten days of the formation of this marriage, present to the local register office a notification, in the form prescribed by the Minister of Justice, of the religious marriage solemnised in accordance with the procedure established by the Church (confessions). In such a case, the marriage shall be deemed to have been contracted from the day of formation of the marriage in accordance with the procedure established by the Church (confessions).\n\n\n4. Where a notification about the formation of a religious marriage in accordance with the procedure established by the Church (confessions) is not submitted within the time limit set in paragraph 3 of this Article, the marriage shall be deemed to have been contracted as of the day on which it was recorded at the register office."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.25. No longer effective from 1 January 2017.\n\n \n\n\nSECTION FOUR\n\nLEGAL EFFECTS OF MARRIAGE\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.26. Equality of spouses\n\n\n1. Having contracted a marriage, the spouses shall acquire the rights and obligations defined in this Book.\n\n\n2. Spouses shall have equal rights and equal civil liability in respect of each other and their children in matters related to the formation, duration and termination of their marriage.\n\n\n3. Spouses may not waive, by mutual agreement, their rights or obligations arising under the law as a consequence of the marriage.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.27. Duty of spouses to support each other\n\n\n1. Spouses must be loyal to and respect each other; they must also support each other morally and financially and contribute toward the common needs of the family or the needs of the other spouse in proportion to their respective capabilities.\n\n\n2. Where, due to objective reasons, one of the spouses is unable to make a sufficient contribution toward the common needs of the family, the other spouse must do so to the extent of his or her capabilities.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.28. Creation of a family relationship\n\nBy contracting a marriage, the spouses shall create a family relationship as a basis for their life together."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.29. Passive and active capacity of spouses\n\nMarriage shall not restrict the passive and active capacity of spouses; the possibility of the spouses to exercise certain rights may, however, be restricted by the marriage contract or the mandatory rules of this Code.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.30. Obligations of the spouses in respect of their children\n\nSpouses shall be obliged to maintain and bring up their children of minor age, take care of their education and health, ensure the child\u2019s right to personal life, inviolability of his or her personality and freedom, the child\u2019s property, social and other rights provided for by domestic and international law.\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.31. Surnames of the spouses\n\nBoth spouses shall have the right to retain their respective surnames or to choose the surname of the other spouse as their common surname or to have a double surname by adjoining the surname of the other spouse to one\u2019s own surname."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "1. One spouse may authorise the other spouse to act in his or her name and represent him or her.\n\n\n2. Where certain acts require the consent of the other spouse, but he or she is unable tot give such consent for objective reasons, the court may, upon the interested spouse\u2019s request, authorise the performance of those acts. Before granting such authorisation, the court must satisfy itself that the consent of the other spouse is really unobtainable and that it is in the best interests of the family to grant such authorisation. The court\u2019s authorisation shall be valid only for the act specified in the court\u2019s order to be performed in the specified period of time. Where the court finds that the spouse\u2019s actions are contrary to the interests of the family or to those of the children of minor age, it may, on the application of the state institution for the protection of the child\u2019s rights or the public prosecutor, amend or revoke the authorisation granted. The amendment or revocation of the authorisation shall be effective only from the date of the court\u2019s order to that effect. On the day of its adoption, such an order of the court must be sent to the Chamber of Notaries or, if the authorisation is related to the disposition of immovable property, to the public register.\n\n\n3. Where one spouse has acted in the name of the other spouse without his or her permission or the"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.33. Disputes of spouses relating to the discharge of their obligations or exercise of their rights\n\n\n1. Where the spouses are unable to agree as to the discharge of their obligations or the exercise of their rights, either of them shall have the right to apply to court for the resolution of their dispute.\n\n\n2. In resolving a dispute between the spouses, the court must take measures for the reconciliation of the spouses.\n\n\n3. The court must decide on the dispute between the spouses by taking account of the interests of their minor children and the interests of the family as a whole."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.34. Temporary restriction on the property rights of a spouse\n\n\n1. Where one of the spouses substantially violated his or her marital obligations provided for in this Book and poses a threat to the property interests of the family by his or her acts, the other spouse shall have the right to apply to court for an order prohibiting the other spouse from disposing of their matrimonial property without the consent of the other spouse. The term of such prohibition may not exceed two years.\n\n\n2. Transactions which a spouse was not entitled to conclude without the consent of the other spouse may be declared null and void on the latter\u2019s action provided that the third person with whom the transaction was concluded acted in bad faith. Such an action may be brought within a limitation period of one year from the date on which the spouse became aware or ought to have become aware of the transaction."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.35. Rights and obligations of spouses in the household\n\n\n1. Neither spouse shall have the right, without the consent of the other spouse, to alienate, pledge or lease any movable thing used in the household or encumber the right to it in any other way.\n\n\n2. The movable property serving for the use of the household shall include household things and furniture, except for works of art, collections or home libraries.\n\n\n3. A spouse having neither consented to nor ratified such a transaction shall have the right to seek a declaration of its invalidity, except in cases where the transaction was by onerous title and the third party acted in good faith."}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "Article 3.36. Rights and obligations of spouses in respect of the dwelling considered to be family property\n\n\n1. Where spouses live in a rented dwelling under a lease agreement, the spouse in whose name the dwelling is rented may not, without a written consent of the other spouse, terminate the lease agreement before its term, sublease it or transfer the rights under the lease agreement. The spouse having neither consented to nor ratified such a transaction shall have the right to seek a declaration of its invalidity.\n\n\n2. A spouse who is the sole owner of the family dwelling may not, without a written consent of the other spouse, alienate, pledge or lease this dwelling. The spouse having neither consented to nor ratified such a transaction shall have the right to seek a declaration of its invalidity provided that the disputed dwelling was registered in the public register as a family asset.\n\n\n3. The rules set out in paragraph 1 and 2 of this Article shall also apply in cases of usufruct (i. e. the right of using and receiving the profits, products or fruits of property that belongs to another) and contract of use.\n\n \n\n\nCHAPTER III\n\nNULLITY OF MARRIAGE"}


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{"source": "/kaggle/working/extracted_files/LR_Civil_Code_2022.txt", "chroma:document": "CHAPTER III\n\nNULLITY OF MARRIAGE\n\n \n\n\nArticle 3.37. Grounds and procedure for declaring marriage null and void\n\n\n1. A marriage may be declared null and void where the conditions for the formation of a valid marriage set out in Articles 3.12 to 3.17 of this Code have been violated as well as on the grounds provided for in Article 3.39 and Article 3.40 of this Code or where one of the intended spouses failed to inform the other that he or she was suffering from a sexually transmitted disease or AIDS.\n\n\n2. A marriage may be declared null and void only by the court.\n\n\n3. A marriage that the court declares to be null and void shall be void ab initio.\n\n\n4. The court must send the judgment on the annulment of marriage by electronic means to the register office that has registered the marriage no later than on the next working day after the entry into force of the judgment."}


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