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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle II: The departmental criminal court

Article 380-17

…partmental criminal court, which sits in the same place as the assize court or, by way of exception and under the conditions set out in article 235, in another judicial court in the same département,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle II: The departmental criminal court

Article 380-18

At the suggestion of the public prosecutor, the hearing of the departmental criminal court is set by its president or, at the request of the public prosecutor, by the first president of the court of a…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter VI: Parentage and subsidies

Article 1157-3

…ossibility of establishing a parent-child relationship between the child resulting from procreation and the donor, or of taking action for liability against the donor;the prohibition on bringing an ac…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 10: Judicial environmental officers

Article R15-33-29-30

…f which time the final rating is immediately sent to the director of the French Biodiversity Office and to the director general of planning, housing and nature. It is taken into account for the admini…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: General provisions.

Article 366-1

The application for authorisation of the prise à partie procedure shall be brought before the first president of the court of appeal within whose jurisdiction the judge concerned sits.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Term bonds

Article 1305-3

The term benefits the debtor, if it does not follow from the law, the will of the parties or the circumstances that it has been established in favour of the creditor or both parties.The party for whos…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Injunction procedures.

Article 1424-3

…e claimant can no longer take legal action to claim the balance, unless he fails to serve the order and proceeds under the ordinary law.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Conciliation delegated to a court-appointed conciliator

Article 129-3

…e conciliation attempt, the judicial conciliator summons the parties, as necessary, to a place, day and time that he/she determines. The parties may be assisted before the judicial conciliator by a pe…

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French Customs CodeIn force
C. - Seizures on ships and deck boats.

Article 331

With regard to seizures made on ships and deck boats, when unloading cannot take place immediately, the seizors affix seals to the hatchways and hatches of the vessels. The report, which is drawn up a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 177-3

Where the civil party is a legal entity, the civil fine provided for in article 177-2 may be pronounced against its legal representative, if the latter's bad faith is established.

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