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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Optional or exceptional acts

Article 286

Where the committal order relates to several unrelated offences, the president may, either of his own motion or at the request of the public prosecutor, order that the accused be immediately prosecute…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Optional or exceptional acts

Article 283

The President, if the investigation appears to him to be incomplete or if new information has come to light since its closure, may order any acts of information that he deems useful. This is done eith…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Rules specific to the legal hypothec of spouses

Article 2397

The provisions of articles 2393 to 2396 shall be brought to the attention of spouses or future spouses under the conditions laid down by decree.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Rules specific to the legal hypothec of spouses

Article 2395

When a legal mortgage has been registered by application of the preceding article, and unless the marriage contract expressly prohibits it, the spouse benefiting from the registration may consent, in…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Rules specific to the legal hypothec of spouses

Article 2394

…y of the request, the subsequent registration having effect only from its date as stated in Article 2418. The registration may also be made in the year following the dissolution of the matrimonial pro…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Rules specific to the legal hypothec of spouses

Article 2396

…nts made pursuant to the preceding article shall be rendered in the forms regulated by the Code of Civil Procedure. The legal mortgage of spouses is subject, for the renewal of registrations, to the r…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Registration of immovable property

Article 2518

Any amendment to the title subsequent to registration shall only be evidence of the rights mentioned therein until proven otherwise.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Registration of immovable property

Article 2516

…o be registered is first bounded. However, any owner, in agreement with the adjoining owners, may waive the bounding. The boundary markers belong to the owner whose property is bounded.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Registration of immovable property

Article 2517

Registration gives rise to the drawing up of a title deed by the registrar of immovable property. The title deed attests, where necessary, to the status of owner. In the courts, it constitutes the sta…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Registration of immovable property

Article 2519

Title deeds and their registrations retain the rights they record as long as they have not been cancelled or amended and are proof to third parties that the person named therein is vested with the rig…

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