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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Forgery

Article 643

…s soon as the document alleged to be forged has been produced before him or has been placed in the hands of the court, shall order it to be deposited with the registry. However, before the document is…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689

…rators or accomplices of offences committed outside the territory of the Republic may be prosecuted and tried by the French courts either when, in accordance with the provisions of Book I of the Penal…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title V: Judges' rules

Article 657

When two investigating judges, belonging to the same court or to different courts, are simultaneously seised of the same offence, the public prosecutor may, in the interests of the proper administrati…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title V: Judges' rules

Article 659

…assation may also, on the occasion of an appeal brought before it, rule on judges of its own motion and even in advance. It may rule on all acts performed by the court to which it relinquishes jurisdi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Trial of offences committed in court

Article 678

…t committed is a crime, the court or tribunal, after having the perpetrator arrested, questions him and draws up a report of the facts; this court transmits the documents and orders the perpetrator to…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Procedure in the event of the disappearance of procedural documents

Article 651

Where the statement of the court and jury can no longer be represented or where the case has been tried in absentia and there is no written record of it, the trial is restarted from the point at which…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VI: Transfers from one court to another

Article 666

Any judgment which has ruled on an application for referral on one of the aforementioned grounds shall be served on the parties concerned at the instance of the Public Prosecutor at the Cour de cassat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Forgery

Article 646

…leged to be forged, the court shall decide, after hearing the observations of the public prosecutor and the parties, whether or not to stay the proceedings until a decision on the forgery has been mad…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title III: Procedure in the event of the disappearance of procedural documents

Article 649

…there is a copy or authenticated copy of the judgment or ruling, it shall be considered as a minute and consequently handed over by any public officer or any depositary to the registry of the court wh…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title V: Judges' rules

Article 660

…d to it, within the time limit set by it, together with the observations of the interested parties, and the course of the proceedings shall be suspended.

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