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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter III: The Grace Period.

Article 510

…e.After service of a summons or act of seizure or from the hearing provided for by the article R. 3252-17 of the French Labour Code, as appropriate, the enforcement judge has jurisdiction to grant a p…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-section II: Evocation.

Article 568

…e appropriate, an investigative measure. The evocation does not prevent the application of articles 554,555 and 563 to 567.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Furnishings

Article 534

The words "furniture" include only furniture intended for the use and decoration of flats, such as tapestries, beds, seats, mirrors, clocks, tables, porcelain and other objects of this nature. Paintin…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: The Examining Magistrate

Article 51

The investigating judge may only inform the public after being seized by an indictment from the public prosecutor or by a complaint with civil party status, under the conditions set out in the article…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Simplified procedure

Article 528

In the event of opposition lodged by the public prosecutor or the accused, the case shall be brought before the police court in the forms of ordinary procedure. The judgment rendered in absentia, on t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Composition of the Criminal Appeals Division

Article 511

The number and day of correctional hearings are fixed at the end of each judicial year for the following judicial year by a joint decision of the first president and the public prosecutor taken after…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Right of accession in relation to movable property

Article 573

Where a thing has been formed by the mixture of several materials belonging to different owners, but none of which can be regarded as the principal material, if the materials can be separated, the one…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 559

If a watercourse, whether state-owned or not, removes by a sudden force a considerable and recognisable part of a riparian field, and carries it to a lower field or to the opposite bank, the owner of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

Article 555

Where the plantations, constructions and works have been made by a third party and with materials belonging to the latter, the owner of the land has the right, subject to the provisions of paragraph 4…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of the Police Court

Article 523

…a judge of the judicial court, an officer of the public prosecutor's office as stated in articles 45 et seq. and a court clerk.When it hears offences of the first four classes, with the exception of…

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