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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-section I: Disputes raised before the judicial tribunal or the court of appeal.

Article 311

In the event of a waiver or settlement of the forgery registration, the Public Prosecutor's Office may request all appropriate measures to reserve the institution of criminal proceedings.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title IX bis: Hearing children in court.

Article 338-8

When the hearing is ordered by a panel, the panel may hear the minor itself or appoint one of its members to conduct the hearing and report back to it.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Optional provisional enforcement

Article 516

Provisional enforcement may only be ordered by the decision which it is intended to render enforceable, subject to the provisions of Articles 517-2 and 517-3.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Initiation of the appeal in cassation.

Article 609

Any party who has an interest may appeal to the Court of Cassation even if the provision that is unfavourable to him does not benefit his opponent.

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

Article 159

If there are no fathers, mothers, grandfathers or grandmothers, or if they are all unable to express their will, minors aged eighteen may not contract marriage without the consent of the family counci…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Formalities relating to the celebration of marriage

Article 169

The public prosecutor in whose district the marriage is to be celebrated may dispense, for serious reasons, with publication and any time limit or with the posting of the publication only.

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

Article 195

Possession of status may not exempt the alleged spouses who invoke it, respectively, from representing the act of celebration of the marriage before the civil registrar.

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

Article 188

A spouse to whose prejudice a second marriage has been contracted may apply for its nullity during the lifetime of the spouse who was committed to it.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Respective rights and duties of spouses

Article 223

Each spouse may freely exercise a profession, receive his or her earnings and wages and dispose of them after paying the marriage expenses.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Conditions required for simple adoption

Article 370-1-6

A child previously adopted by a single person, in the simple or plenary form, may be adopted a second time, by the other member of the couple, in the simple form.

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