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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 363

A simple adoption confers the adopter's name on the adopted person by adding it to the latter's name. However, if the adopted person is over thirteen years of age, he or she must consent to this addit…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 364

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 362

The adopter has sole parental authority over the adopted child, including the right to consent to the marriage of the adopted child. The rights of parental authority are exercised by the adopter(s) un…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 368

If serious grounds are shown, the adoption may be revoked, where the adopted person is of age, at the request of the latter or of the adopter.Where the adopted person is a minor, revocation of the ado…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 367

The adoption retains all its effects, notwithstanding the subsequent establishment of a parent-child relationship.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 369

Reasons must be given for the judgment revoking the adoption.The operative part of the judgment is mentioned in the margin of the birth certificate or the transcription of the adoption judgment, under…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 366

In the adopted person's estate, in the absence of descendants and a surviving spouse, the property donated by the adopter or received into his or her estate reverts to the adopter or his or her descen…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Effects of simple adoption

Article 365

The adopted person and his or her descendants have, in the adopter's family, the succession rights provided for in Chapter III of Title I of Book III.The adopted person and his or her descendants do n…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Powers of the public prosecutor at the court of appeal

Article 36

The Public Prosecutor may direct the public prosecutors, by written instructions placed in the case file, to institute proceedings or have proceedings instituted, or to refer to the competent court su…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Decisions on public action

Article 368

No person who has been legally acquitted may again be convicted or charged in respect of the same acts, even under a different characterisation.

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