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4 It might be of interest to mention a recent French court decision, which used the criterion of the status of the parties to the contract in order to delimitate the jurisdiction between civil and administrative courts: in a decision of the Tribunal des conflits, a contract between two administrative bodies was considered to be an administrative contract because of its parties. Hill, J., “Public Law and Private Law: More (French) Food for Thought” (Spring 1985) Public Law 14–25Google Scholar.
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