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

Article 649

If 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…

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

Article 648

When, as a result of an extraordinary cause, minutes of judgments or rulings rendered in criminal, correctional or police matters and not yet executed, or proceedings in progress and their copies draw…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Forgery

Article 645

Any public custodian of documents alleged to be forged, or having been used to establish forgeries, is required, by order of the examining magistrate, to hand them over to him and to provide, where ap…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Forgery

Article 644

The examining magistrate may have any comparison documents handed over to him by whomever he sees fit and seize them. These shall bear his signature and that of the clerk, who shall make a descriptive…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title II: Forgery

Article 647

An application to register a forgery against a document produced before the Court of Cassation shall be addressed to the First President. It is filed at the court registry. It is signed by the applica…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4: Special arrangements for the Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin departments

Article 649

The provisions applicable to buildings located in the departments of Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin shall be laid down by decree (1).

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Transfers by death

Article 644

With regard to all assets bequeathed to the départements and to any other public or public utility establishments, the time limit for payment of transfer duties by death shall only run against the hei…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
b: Transfers and other transactions resulting from verbal agreements

Article 640

In the absence of deeds, transfers of enjoyment for life or for an unlimited period of real estate, business assets or customer lists must be declared within one month of the entry into enjoyment.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Transfers by death

Article 642

…tinique, Mayotte and Réunion, the deadlines for registering the declarations referred to in article 641 are:- six months from the day of death, where the person whose estate is being collected died in…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
3: Computation of time limits

Article 648

The day of the date of the deed or the day of the opening of the estate is not counted in the time limits set for the performance of the registration formality or the merged formality. When the expiry…

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