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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter III: Verification and recovery of costs.

Article 709

The president of the court or the magistrate delegated for this purpose shall decide by order in the light of the audited account and any other relevant documents, after having received the observatio…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter III: Verification and recovery of costs.

Article 713

The tax order is endorsed on the minute with the executory formula by the registrar. When it is subject to appeal, notification of the order shall contain, on pain of nullity: 1. A statement that the…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter III: Verification and recovery of costs.

Article 711

The judge shall, even of his own motion, make any adjustments necessary to bring the account into conformity with the tariffs. He shall mention, where appropriate, any sums already collected as a prov…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter III: Verification and recovery of costs.

Article 717

The First President or his delegate may refer the application as it stands to a hearing of the court, the date of which he shall fix.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 769

An entry shall be made in the criminal record of sentences or exemptions from sentences handed down after deferral of sentence, pardons, commutations or reductions of sentences, decisions suspending o…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter V: Disputes relating to the remuneration of technicians.

Article 724

The decisions referred to in Articles 255,262 and 284, issued by a judge of a court of first instance or of the court of appeal, may be appealed to the first president of the court of appeal under the…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter V: Disputes relating to the remuneration of technicians.

Article 725

The notification must mention, on pain of nullity, the content of the preceding article as well as that of articles 714 (paragraph 2) and 715.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Qualifications for succession.

Article 728

A successor who is affected by a cause of unworthiness provided for in articles 726 and 727, where the deceased, subsequent to the facts and to his knowledge of them, has specified, by an express decl…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Qualifications for succession.

Article 725

To succeed, a person must exist at the time the succession is opened or, having already been conceived, be born viable. A person whose absence is presumed under article 112.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Qualifications for succession.

Article 726

The following are unworthy of succession and, as such, excluded from the estate: 1° Anyone who is sentenced, as perpetrator or accomplice, to a criminal penalty for having wilfully caused or attempted…

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