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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Death certificates.

Article 88

A judicial declaration may be made, at the request of the public prosecutor or the parties concerned, of the death of any French national who has disappeared in France or outside France, in circumstan…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Death certificates.

Article 84

In the event of death in prisons or houses of confinement or detention, notice thereof shall be given immediately, by the caretakers or guards, to the civil registrar, who shall go there as stated in…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Death certificates.

Article 85

In all cases of violent death or death occurring in a penal establishment, no mention shall be made in the registers of these circumstances, and death certificates shall simply be drawn up in the form…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Death certificates.

Article 89

…to the court of the place of the home port of the aircraft or vessel that was transporting him or her. Failing any other, the judicial court of Paris has jurisdiction.If several persons have disappear…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Death certificates.

Article 86

In the event of death during a sea voyage and in the circumstances provided for in Article 59, it will be recorded within twenty-four hours by the instrumental officers designated in this article and…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Death certificates.

Article 80

…ectors shall give notice of the death, by any means, within twenty-four hours, to the civil registrar. In these establishments, a register is kept in which the declarations and information brought to…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Death certificates.

Article 81

When there are signs or indications of violent death, or other circumstances giving reason to suspect it, burial may only be carried out after a police officer, assisted by a doctor of medicine or sur…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Death certificates.

Article 87

When the body of a deceased person is found and can be identified, a death record must be drawn up by the civil registrar of the presumed place of death, regardless of the time elapsed between the dea…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 8

…227-26 of the Penal Code, shall be time-barred after ten years from the age of majority of the latter. Public prosecution for the offences mentioned in articles 222-12,222-29-1 et 227-26 of the same c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 80

I.-The investigating judge may only inform by virtue of an indictment issued by the public prosecutor. The indictment may be made against a named or unnamed person. When facts, not covered by the indi…

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