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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IX: Parental authority

Article 1210-8

…services of any qualified person for the purpose of promoting the amicable enforcement of the order and determining the arrangements for the child's return; - request any qualified person to verify th…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title II: Property.

Article 1281-8

In the absence of conciliation, the person in charge of distribution shall record the points of disagreement.The sums put into distribution shall be immediately deposited, if they are not already depo…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title I: Individuals

Article 1262-8

When the guardianship judge orders a legal protection measure, he informs the legal representative for the protection of adults carrying out the legal support measure by any means.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book V: Enforcement procedures

Article 763-8

…ome of the obligations to which the person is subject, beyond the period ordered by the trial court and the limits provided for in Article 131-36-1 of the Penal Code, by placing him or her under secur…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 803-1

…receipt or by a consignment sent by a means of telecommunication to the lawyer's electronic address and of which a written record is kept.II. - Where this Code provides that notices, summonses or docu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 803-3

In case of necessity and notwithstanding the provisions of Article 803-2, the person may appear the following day and may be held for this purpose in specially equipped court premises, provided that t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 803-7

…or formalities provided for by this code, he or she may immediately refer the matter to the liberty and custody judge for orders for the immediate placement of the person concerned under judicial supe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 801-1

…nditions, without the need for a paper medium. Where these documents are drawn up in digital format and the provisions of this Code require them to be signed, they shall be signed, irrespective of the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 802-1

Where, pursuant to this code, the public prosecutor or a court is seised of a request which must be answered by a reasoned decision subject to appeal, in the absence of a reply within two months of th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title X: Legal costs

Article 802-3

…offences for the trial of which the court has, pursuant to the provisions of this code, concurrent and specialised territorial jurisdiction extending over the jurisdiction of several judicial courts…

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