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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Appeals to the Court of Cassation

Article 593

…fficient and do not allow the Cour de cassation to exercise its review and to recognise whether the law has been complied with in the operative part. The same applies where a ruling has been omitted o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I bis: Priority question on constitutionality

Article LO630

…s defined by the articles 23-1 to 23-7 of Order no. 58-1067 of 7 November 1958 enacting the Organic Law on the Constitutional Council.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-22

…ngs relating to offences which were committed outside the territory of the issuing State and French law does not authorise the prosecution of these acts when committed outside the territory of the Rep…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Guarantee institutions against the risk of non-payment.

Article L3253-17

…es social security and employee contributions of legal origin, or of conventional origin imposed by law, as well as the withholding tax provided for in article 204 A of the General Tax Code.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Deeds and transfers other than transfers by death

Article 652

…egistration of private deeds, which must be submitted for this formality within a time limit set by law, takes place, for those of them involving the transfer of ownership, usufruct or enjoyment of im…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 2: Civic education

Article R413-12

…ar freedom, equality, including equality between men and women, fraternity, secularism, the rule of law, fundamental freedoms, the safety of persons and property, the exercise of citizenship, the righ…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
TITLE II: TERRITORIAL LIMITS AND CHIEF TOWN

Article L3621-1

The territorial limits of metropolitan Lyon set out in Article L. 3611-1 are modified by law, after consultation with the metropolitan council, the municipal councils of the interested communes and th…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Orders on request

Article 845

…udge in charge of litigation relating to protection is seised by petition in the cases specified by law. He may also order, on application, any urgent measures where the circumstances require that the…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section VIII: The European Certificate of Succession

Article 1381-1

…o 650/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and the acceptance and enforcement of authentic instru…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
General provisions

Article 802-1

…xercised against the implied decision rejecting the request. This article shall not apply where the law provides for a specific appeal in the absence of a reply.

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