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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VI: Appeals against police judgements

Article 549

The provisions of articles 505 to 509, 511 and 514 to 520, are applicable to judgments handed down by the police courts. The court of appeal, hearing an appeal against a judgment that the police court…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Third-party proceedings.

Article 586

Third-party proceedings are open on a principal basis for thirty years from the date of the judgment unless the law provides otherwise.The third-party proceedings may be brought without any time limit…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Third-party proceedings.

Article 588

Third-party proceedings incidental to a dispute before a court shall be decided by that court if it is of a higher grade than the court that gave the judgment or if, being of equal grade, there is no…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Final proceedings before the Police Court

Article 537

Contraventions are proven either by minutes or reports, or by witnesses in the absence of reports and minutes, or in support of them. Except in cases where the law provides otherwise, minutes or repor…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: The appeal.

Article 542

An appeal seeks, by criticism of the judgment given by a court of first instance, to have it set aside or reversed by the court of appeal.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Provisional enforcement.

Article 514

Decisions at first instance are provisionally enforceable by operation of law unless the law or the decision rendered provides otherwise.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Revision proceedings.

Article 597

All parties to the contested judgment must be called to the review proceedings by the applicant, on pain of inadmissibility.

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

Article 567

A main part is deemed to be that to which the other has been joined only for the use, ornament or complement of the first.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Rights of the usufructuary

Article 594

Fruit trees that die, and even those that are uprooted or broken by accident, belong to the usufructuary, with the obligation to replace them with others.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Default judgment and opposition

Article 545

The provisions of articles 487 and 488 relating to judgments by default, and 489 to 495 relating to opposition.

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