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Showing 161–170 of 32301 articles for “Art. 9 May 2017”
If it is necessary to summon again a party who was not joined by the first summons, it may be ordered that the new summons will be made by writ of a bailiff.
The magistrate hearing the case may hear the parties. He has the pre-trial powers provided for in Article 446-3.
An inter vivos gift may be revoked only on the grounds of non-performance of the conditions under which it was made, ingratitude, and the birth of children.
The testator shall be read, in the presence of witnesses, the provisions of article 984, 987 or 994, as the case may be, and mention of this reading shall be made in the will.
The request for the setting of a hearing day may be presented within two months of the declaration of appeal by the respondent who has constituted a lawyer.
For the application of article 298, the accused and the prosecution may not each challenge more than three jurors at first instance and four on appeal.
All persons may dispose of and receive either by donation inter vivos or by will, except those whom the law declares incapable of doing so.
Failure to publish may be asserted by all persons having an interest, except, however, those responsible for causing the publication to be made, or their assigns, and the donor.
They have jurisdiction to rule that the appeal is inadmissible pursuant to Article 963 :the First President;the President of the Chamber to which the case is distributed;the Conseiller de la mise en é…
…dren or descendants currently living at the time of the donation, of whatever value these donations may be, and on whatever basis they were made, and even if they were mutual or remunerative, even tho…
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