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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title IV: Citations and meanings

Article 562

If the person resides abroad, he or she is summoned to the public prosecutor's office at the court seised. The public prosecutor shall endorse the original and send a copy to the Minister of Foreign A…

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

Article 593

An application for judicial review seeks to set aside a judgment that has become res judicata so that a new decision can be made on the facts and the law.

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

Article 596

The time limit for an application for review is two months. It runs from the day on which the party became aware of the ground for review that it is invoking.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Rights of the usufructuary

Article 582

The usufructuary has the right to enjoy any kind of fruit, whether natural, industrial or civil, that the object of which he has usufruct may produce.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Usufruct

Article 578

Usufruct is the right to enjoy things owned by another, like the owner himself, but with the charge of preserving their substance.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Permanence of care

Article L6314-1

The public service mission of permanence of care is carried out, in collaboration with health establishments, by the doctors mentioned inarticle L. 162-5 of the Social Security Code, as part of their…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Appeals to the Court of Cassation

Article 592

Such decisions shall be declared null and void where they are not given by the prescribed number of judges or where they have been given by judges who did not attend all the hearings in the case. Wher…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-title I: Common provisions.

Article 536

The inaccurate characterisation of a judgment by the judges who delivered it shall have no effect on the right to appeal. If the appeal is declared inadmissible on account of such inaccuracy, the deci…

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

Article 591

The decision that upholds the third party opposition only retracts or amends the contested judgment in respect of the points that are prejudicial to the third party opponent. The original judgment ret…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-title I: Common provisions.

Article 532

The time limit is interrupted by the death of the party to whom the judgment had been notified.It runs by virtue of a notification made to the domicile of the deceased and from the expiry of the time…

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