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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 96

…that of the person under investigation, the person whose home is to be searched is invited to attend. If that person is absent or refuses to attend, the search shall take place in the presence of two…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 97

…s or computer data placed in the hands of the court are immediately inventoried and placed under seal. However, if their inventory on the spot presents difficulties, the judicial police officer shall…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: The bringing of a civil action and its effects

Article 91

…s must be brought within three months of the date on which the order to dismiss the case became final. It shall be brought by summons before the criminal court where the case was investigated. The fil…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Transport, searches and seizures

Article 93

If the needs of the investigation so require, the examining magistrate may, after giving notice to the public prosecutor of his court, travel with his clerk throughout the national territory, in order…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 3: Form, statements and registration of retail declarations.

Article 97

It is forbidden to present as a unit in the declarations several closed packages joined together in any way whatsoever.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 3: Form, statements and registration of retail declarations.

Article 95

…ng except where, in application of Community regulations in force, an oral declaration is substituted.1 bis. In the cases for which the list and conditions of application are laid down by orders of th…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 3: Form, statements and registration of retail declarations.

Article 98

…ipulation likely to alter the presentation of goods covered by provisional declarations is prohibited. 3. The form of provisional declarations and the conditions under which prior examination of the g…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 3: Form, statements and registration of retail declarations.

Article 96

When several items are included on the same declaration form, each item is considered to have been declared separately.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 3: Form, statements and registration of retail declarations.

Article 99

…d a statement which does not conform to this terminology, the latter statement shall be null and void. Where the species is declared simply by reference to the coding elements of the nomenclature for…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Capacity to dispose of or receive by gift inter vivos or by will.

Article 903

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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