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Showing 1371–1380 of 59417 articles for “Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 8-1-1997 n° 9”
Where the court has declared itself to have jurisdiction and has ruled on the merits of the dispute in the same judgment given at first instance, that judgment may be appealed against in its entirety.…
Each party has the burden of proving in accordance with the law the facts necessary for the success of its claim.
Everyone has the right to respect for his or her private life. Judges may, without prejudice to compensation for damage suffered, prescribe any measures, such as sequestration, seizure and the like, s…
…the Public Prosecutor or any interested party may prosecute, in the forms provided for in Articles 89 et seq, for the judgment to be set aside. The provisions of articles 130, 131 and 132 shall apply,…
If it does not originate from the public prosecutor, the request is forwarded to the court through his intermediary. The case is heard and decided in chambers. The assistance of a lawyer is not compul…
A record in lieu of a birth record is drawn up for any person born abroad who acquires or recovers French nationality, unless the record drawn up at his or her birth has already been entered in a regi…
Public prosecution for contraventions is statute-barred one year after the day on which the offence was committed.
It is forbidden to present as a unit in the declarations several closed packages joined together in any way whatsoever.
When several items are included on the same declaration form, each item is considered to have been declared separately.
A minor under sixteen years of age may not dispose of anything, except as regulated in Chapter IX of this Title.
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