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French Civil CodeIn force
Title III: Domicile

Article 107

The acceptance of functions conferred for life, will entail the immediate translation of the domicile of the civil servant in the place where he must exercise these functions.

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Title III: Domicile

Article 111

Where a deed contains, on the part of the parties or one of them, an election of domicile for the performance of the same deed in a place other than that of the actual domicile, service, requests and…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Presumption of absence

Article 118

If a person presumed absent reappears or gives news of himself, the measures taken for his representation and the administration of his property shall, at his request, be terminated by the judge; he s…

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

Article 147

A second marriage may not be contracted until the first has been dissolved.

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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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Chapter II: Formalities relating to the celebration of marriage

Article 171

The President of the Republic may, for serious reasons, authorise the celebration of the marriage in the event of the death of one of the future spouses, provided that a sufficient collection of facts…

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Chapter III: Objections to marriage

Article 173

The father, the mother and, in the absence of father and mother, the grandfathers and grandmothers may lodge an objection to the marriage of their children and descendants, even those of full age. Onc…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Declaration of absence

Article 131

Any interested party who has caused a declaration of absence to be made by fraud shall be required to restore to the absent person whose existence is judicially established the income from the propert…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Objections to marriage

Article 177

The judicial court will rule within ten days on the application for release made by the future spouses, even if they are minors.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 194

No one may claim the title of spouse and the civil effects of marriage unless he or she represents an act of celebration recorded in the civil status register; except in the cases provided for in Arti…

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