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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Cross-border recognition.

Article 509

Judgments rendered by foreign courts and deeds received by foreign officers shall be enforceable in the territory of the Republic in the manner and in the cases provided by law.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Optional provisional enforcement

Article 516

Provisional enforcement may only be ordered by the decision which it is intended to render enforceable, subject to the provisions of Articles 517-2 and 517-3.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Optional provisional enforcement

Article 517

Provisional enforcement may be subject to the provision of a guarantee, real or personal, sufficient to meet any restitution or reparation.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Forms of appeal

Article 577

Where the applicant for judicial review is a prisoner, the appeal may be lodged by means of a declaration to the head of the prison. This declaration is recorded, dated and signed by the head of the p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Forms of appeal

Article 579

The party who has not received the notification provided for in Article 578 has the right to lodge an objection to the judgment handed down by the Cour de cassation, by filing a declaration at the reg…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Forms of appeal

Article 584

The applicant for cassation, either by making his declaration or within ten days thereafter, may file, at the registry of the court which handed down the contested decision, a memorandum, signed by hi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Forms of appeal

Article 587

When the case file is thus in order, the court clerk hands it over to the magistrate of the public prosecutor's office, who immediately sends it to the public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation; the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Forms of appeal

Article 588

If one or more lawyers have been appointed, the President of the Chamber shall set a time limit for the filing of the pleadings with the Registrar of the Criminal Chamber.The President of that Chamber…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Forms of appeal

Article 589

A party interested in the appeal who has not received a copy of the pleadings produced in support of the appeal may lodge an objection to the judgment handed down by the Cour de cassation, by declarat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Forms of appeal

Article 590

The pleadings shall contain the grounds of cassation and refer to the legal texts whose infringement is alleged. They are drawn up on a stamp, unless the applicant is a person sentenced to a criminal…

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