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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: General provisions

Article 344

The application for recusal or dismissal on grounds of legitimate suspicion shall be made to the first president of the court of appeal. It shall be made by a deed delivered to the registry of the cou…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Stay of proceedings.

Article 380

The stay decision may be appealed with the permission of the first president of the court of appeal if there is a serious and legitimate reason. The party wishing to appeal shall refer the matter to t…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 2: Prohibitions relating to the protection of trade marks and indications of origin.

Article 39

1. All foreign products, whether natural or manufactured, bearing either on themselves or on packaging, boxes, bundles, envelopes, strips or labels, etc., a product or service mark, a name, a sign or…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Special provisions relating to guarantee calls.

Article 337

A judgment given against the formal guarantor may, in all cases, be enforced against the guaranteed party on the sole condition that it has been notified to him.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Abstention.

Article 339

A judge who assumes in his person a ground for disqualification or considers in good conscience that he should abstain shall be replaced by another judge designated by the president of the court to wh…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: Stoppage of proceedings.

Article 387

Peremption may be requested by any of the parties. It may be set up by way of exception against a party who performs an act after the expiry of the period of lapse.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Deliberations of the Assize Court

Article 360

The declaration, when affirmative, states that the majority of votes required by

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 387

Where the court is seised of several proceedings concerning related facts, it may order that they be joined either of its own motion, or at the request of the public prosecutor, or at the request of o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Voluntary appearance and summons

Article 392

A civil party who summons an accused person directly before a criminal court shall, in the summons, elect domicile within the jurisdiction of the court seised, unless he is domiciled there..

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title IX: Intervention.

Article 327

Intervention at first instance or on appeal may be voluntary or compulsory. The only intervention admitted before the Cour de cassation is voluntary intervention made as an accessory matter.

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