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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Qualities and conditions required to enter into marriage

Article 159

…their will, minors aged eighteen may not contract marriage without the consent of the family council.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Qualities and conditions required to enter into marriage

Article 156

Civil registrars who proceed with the celebration of marriages contracted by sons or daughters who have not reached the age of eighteen without the consent of the fathers and mothers, that of the gran…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Qualities and conditions required to enter into marriage

Article 151

The production of a copy, reduced to the operative part, of the judgment declaring the absence or ordering an enquiry into the absence of the father and mother, grandparents or grandmothers of one of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Qualities and conditions required to enter into marriage

Article 150

If the father and mother are dead, or if they are unable to express their will, the forefathers and foremothers shall replace them; if there is dissension between the forefather and the foremother of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 15

The judicial police comprise:1° Officers of the judicial police;2° Judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers;3° Investigation assistants of the national police and the national gend…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 159

The investigating judge appoints the expert responsible for carrying out the expert examination. If the circumstances justify it, he appoints several experts.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Letters rogatory

Article 151

…the proceedings. It shall be dated and signed by the magistrate issuing it and stamped with his seal. It may only prescribe investigative acts directly related to the repression of the offence being…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Letters rogatory

Article 152

The magistrates or judicial police officers assigned to carry out the investigation exercise, within the limits of the letter rogatory, all the powers of the investigating judge. However, the judicial…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 8: Letters rogatory

Article 154

The provisions of articles 61-1 and 61-2 relating to the hearing of a suspected person or a victim as well as Articles 61-3 and 62-2 to 64-1 are applicable during the execution of letters rogatory. Th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 156

Any investigating or trial court, where a technical question arises, may, either at the request of the public prosecutor or of its own motion, or at the request of the parties, order an expert report.…

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