French Code of civil procedure
In forceThe heading of the appeal submissions shall contain the information provided for in article 961. They must expressly state the parties' claims and the pleas of fact and law on which each of these claims is based, indicating for each claim the documents relied on and their numbering. A summary of the exhibits shall be attached.
The submissions shall include a separate statement of the facts and of the procedure, a statement of the heads of judgment challenged, a discussion of the claims and of the pleas in law and a decision summarising the claims. If, in the course of the discussion, new pleas in law in relation to the previous pleadings are raised in support of the claims, they shall be presented in a formally separate manner.
The court shall rule only on the claims set out in the operative part and shall examine the pleas in law in support of those claims only if they are raised in the discussion.
The parties must repeat, in their final pleadings, the claims and pleas previously presented or raised in their earlier submissions. If they fail to do so, they are deemed to have abandoned them and the court shall rule only on the last submissions filed.
A party who submits that the judgment should be set aside must expressly state the pleas that it relies on without being able to proceed by way of reference to its submissions at first instance.
A party who does not make a submission or who, without stating new pleas, requests that the judgment be upheld is deemed to appropriate the grounds of the judgment.
