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Article 712
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Ownership is also acquired by accession or incorporation, and by prescription.
The court or tribunal, at the request of the public prosecutor or the interested party, shall rule in chambers after hearing the public prosecutor, the party's counsel if he so requests and, if approp…
All disputes relating to enforcement are brought before the court or tribunal that handed down the sentence; this court may also rectify purely material errors contained in its decisions. In consideri…
In accordance with the dispositions de l'article L. 213-2 du code pénitentiaire, les personnes mises en examen, prévenus et accusées soumises à la détention provisoire sont placées en cellule individu…
Investigated persons, defendants and accused persons subject to pre-trial detention shall undergo it in a prison or an establishment for sentenced persons, under the conditions set out in the provisio…
A confiscation order is a final penalty or measure ordered by a court in a Member State of the European Union, referred to as the issuing State, following proceedings in respect of one or more crimina…
The examining magistrate, the president of the examining chamber and the president of the assize court, as well as the public prosecutor and the public prosecutor, may give all necessary orders either…
Members of Parliament, senators, representatives to the European Parliament elected in France, bar presidents in their jurisdiction or their specially appointed delegate within the Bar Council are aut…
During the period of repayment of loans taken out for the construction of a dwelling, amicable transfers of individual low-rent dwellings with the aim of substituting solvent persons, fulfilling the c…
Voluntary or judicial resolutions of contracts for the sale of single-family homes meeting the conditions set for low-income housing by
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