French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: The decisive oath
Article 1385-4
…cipal debtor only when it has been referred on the debt, and not on the fact of joint and several liability or surety.
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…cipal debtor only when it has been referred on the debt, and not on the fact of joint and several liability or surety.
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The Cour de cassation is not obliged to refer to the Conseil constitutionnel a priority question of constitutionality challenging, on the same grounds, a legislative provision already before the Conse…
The parties have a period of one month from the decision to refer the question of constitutionality to the Cour de cassation to make known any observations they may have before the Court. They are sig…
When the priority question of constitutionality is raised in the course of an appeal, the separate pleading provided for in article 23-5 of Order no. 58-1067 of 7 November 1958 shall bear the words: "…
The president of the panel to which the case is distributed or his delegate, at the request of one of the parties or of his own motion, may, in urgent cases, reduce the time limit provided for in arti…
The court registry shall notify the parties of the decision taken by the president of the panel or his delegate pursuant to the first paragraph of Article R. * 49-32, as well as the date of the hearin…
…strial, craft, liberal or agricultural activity, with the exception of the management of its own movable or immovable assets.The condition mentioned in e is assessed on the date on which the 25% thres…
The great customary council may also refer to itself any draft or proposed deliberation of the territorial collectivity of French Guiana that directly concerns the environment, the living environment…
Any draft or proposed deliberation of the Assembly of French Guyana that has consequences for the environment or the living environment or concerns the identity of the Amerindian and Bushinenge popula…
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