Article 1556
At the end of the conventional procedure and with the exception of applications for divorce or legal separation, which shall be decided in accordance with the provisions of Section II of Chapter V of…
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At the end of the conventional procedure and with the exception of applications for divorce or legal separation, which shall be decided in accordance with the provisions of Section II of Chapter V of…
The rules of article 1479 apply to claims that either spouse may have against the other.
The parties are never obliged to be represented and may in all circumstances defend themselves or be represented by a proxy.
Supplementary rolls may be drawn up on the basis of facts existing on 1 January of the year of taxation.
…eir minutes the divorce or legal separation agreement by mutual consent in accordance with the procedures provided for in the article 229-1 of the Civil Code, to issue the notarial acts provided for i…
The judge may travel outside his jurisdiction to carry out an investigative measure or to monitor its execution.
A Frenchman may be brought before a court in France, for obligations contracted by him in a foreign country, even with a foreigner.
When it cannot be appealed independently of the judgment on the merits, the decision may take the form of a simple mention in the file or in the hearing register.
A sale is an agreement by which one party undertakes to deliver a thing, and the other to pay for it. It may be made by deed or by private agreement.
The arbitration agreement may, directly or by reference to arbitration rules or rules of procedure, appoint the arbitrator or arbitrators or provide for the manner of their appointment.
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