Article 1599
The sale of someone else's thing is void: it may give rise to damages where the buyer was unaware that the thing belonged to someone else.
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The sale of someone else's thing is void: it may give rise to damages where the buyer was unaware that the thing belonged to someone else.
Anything in commerce may be sold where particular laws have not prohibited its alienation.
There are three main types of hire of work and industry:1° Hire of services;2° Hire of carriers, both by land and by water, who undertake the transport of persons or goods;3° Hire of architects, contr…
A warning issued by the public prosecutor dispenses with a summons if it is followed by the voluntary appearance of the person to whom it is addressed. It indicates the offence prosecuted and refers t…
The articles 388-1,388-2,388-3,388-4 and 390 to 392-1 are applicable before the police court.
The Police Court is seised of offences within its jurisdiction either by referral to it by the investigating court, or by the voluntary appearance of the parties, or by summons issued directly to the…
Persons remanded in custody or sentenced to a custodial sentence shall be booked and detained in prisons under the conditions laid down in the provisions of the Prison Code..
The placement, on an exceptional basis, of juvenile detainees over the age of sixteen in a disciplinary cell may not exceed seven days.In an emergency, juvenile detainees over the age of sixteen may,…
In accordance with the dispositions de l'article L. 223-2 du code pénitentiaire, le procureur de la République est immédiatement avisé de la découverte, au sein d'un établissement pénitentiaire ou d'u…
Title V of Book I of this Part, as amended by Act no. 2021-1017 of 2 August 2021, is applicable in New Caledonia and French Polynesia.
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