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Showing 481–490 of 6062 articles for “Art. 12 déc. 2019”
Only the following are authorised to carry out DNA identifications: 1° The technical and forensic police services or organisations referred to in article 157-2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure; 2° Pe…
Where a change of nationality is subject, under the terms of an international convention, to the performance of an act of option, the form of that act is determined by the law of the contracting count…
A child who has been the subject of a simple adoption by a person of French nationality may, until the age of majority, declare, under the conditions set out in the articles 26 et seq, that he or she…
Where filiation is established under the conditions laid down in article 342-11 by joint acknowledgement, the women named therein choose the surname that will devolve on the child at the latest at the…
The measures mentioned in article 515-11 are taken for a maximum period of six months from notification of the order. They may be extended if, during this period, an application for divorce or legal s…
The detailed rules for the application of this section shall be specified by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.
Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years on the date of the incident and whose articles of association aim to combat road traffic crime and to defend or assist the victims…
The public prosecutor and the examining magistrate are free to choose the panels to which the judicial police officers belong.
Where the person under investigation or the assisted witness is implicated by several persons, they may request, in accordance with the first paragraph of
Investigating and sentencing courts may, as an alternative measure to pre-trial detention, impose house arrest with electronic surveillance in the cases provided for by articles 135-2, 145, 148, 201,…
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