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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Civil status of persons born abroad who acquire or recover French nationality.

Article 98-1

…on acquiring or recovering French nationality has previously contracted marriage abroad, unless the celebration of the marriage has already been recorded by an act entered in a register kept by a Fren…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Cancellation and rectification of civil status records

Article 99-1

…rds for which he or she is the custodian and the list of which is laid down by the Code of Civil Procedure. If the error vitiates other civil status records, the civil registrar to whom the matter is…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter V: Medically assisted procreation with third-party donors

Article 342-9

In the event of medically assisted procreation requiring the intervention of a third-party donor, no filiation link may be established between the donor and the child resulting from the medically assi…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Educational assistance

Article 375-9

The decision entrusting the minor, on the basis of 5° of article 375-3, to an establishment receiving people hospitalised due to mental disorders, is ordered after a detailed medical opinion from a do…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Legal support measures

Article 495-9

The provisions of Title XII relating to the preparation, audit and approval of accounts and to prescription which are not incompatible with those of this chapter shall apply to the management of the s…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Title: XIV: Measures to protect victims of violence

Article 515-9

When violence committed within a couple, including where there is no cohabitation, or by a former spouse, a former partner linked by a civil solidarity pact or a former cohabitee, including where ther…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 9-1

…Code, where it has led to the birth of a child, runs from the age of majority of the child.As an exception to the first paragraph of articles 7 and 8 of this Code, the limitation period for public pr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-9

…istered for at least five years and whose articles of association propose to assist victims of offences may exercise the rights granted to civil parties in respect of offences falling within the scope…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 9-3

…e of law, provided for by law, or any insurmountable obstacle of fact that can be assimilated to force majeure, which makes it impossible to initiate or pursue public action, suspends the statute of l…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 9-2

…1 on the freedom of the press ; 2° Any investigative act emanating from the public prosecutor's office, any report drawn up by a judicial police officer or an authorised agent exercising judicial poli…

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