French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.
Article 54
In all cases where a court of law deals with acts relating to civil status, the interested parties may appeal against the judgment.
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In all cases where a court of law deals with acts relating to civil status, the interested parties may appeal against the judgment.
These acts will be signed by the civil registrar, by those appearing and by the witnesses; or mention will be made of the cause preventing those appearing and the witnesses from signing.
Any custodian of the registers shall be civilly liable for any alterations thereto, subject to his recourse, if any, against the authors of the said alterations.
Where no registers have existed, or where they have been lost, proof shall be received both by titles and by witnesses; and, in such cases, marriages, births and deaths may be proved both by the regis…
In all cases where the mention of an act relating to civil status is to be made in the margin of an act already recorded, it will be made ex officio.The civil registrar who has drawn up or transcribed…
Civil registrars may not insert anything in the records they receive, either by note or by any statement whatsoever, other than what must be declared by those appearing.
Any civil status record of French nationals and foreigners made in a foreign country and drawn up in the forms customary in that country is authentic, unless other records or documents held, external…
Civil status records will state the year, day and time they are received, the first names and surname of the civil registrar, the first names, surnames, occupations and domiciles of all those named th…
Any contravention of the foregoing articles, on the part of the officials named therein, will be prosecuted before the judicial court, and punishable by a fine of 3 to 30 euros.
Civil status records are drawn up by civil registrars. They carry out their duties under the supervision of the public prosecutor.
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