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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special rights reserved for customs.

Article 386

If the effects and papers of accountants are sealed, the revenue and other registers for the current year must not be sealed. The said registers are simply stopped and initialled by the judge, who han…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special rights reserved for customs.

Article 384

…stoms administration is granted by judgments against which an appeal is lodged, they shall only be handed over to those in whose favour the said judgments were rendered under good and sufficient secur…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special rights reserved for customs.

Article 383

…cassation, unless those in whose favour the said judgments have been rendered have first given good and sufficient security for the sums awarded to them.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special rights reserved for customs.

Article 385

All seizures of the proceeds of duties, made in the hands of the tax collectors or in those of the parties liable to pay the administration, are null and void; notwithstanding the said seizures, the p…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section I: Alcohols

Article 363

…of the provisions of the legislative or regulatory texts relating to the rum regime are established and prosecuted as in matters of indirect taxation.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: The Public Prosecutor's Office

Article R15-33-66-3

The public prosecutor who directed the investigation or that of the court hearing the prosecution shall inform the owner of the movable property by any means of his right to restitution of the proceed…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: General provisions

Article 344

…nadmissibility, state the grounds for the challenge or dismissal on grounds of legitimate suspicion and be accompanied by supporting documents.A receipt shall be issued for the request.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: General provisions

Article 342

A party wishing to challenge a judge or request that the case be referred on grounds of legitimate suspicion to another court of the same nature must, on pain of inadmissibility, do so as soon as he i…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: General provisions

Article 346

…tion judiciaire, the first president shall rule promptly.The clerk of the court shall, by any means and without delay, notify the parties, the judge whose disqualification has been requested and the p…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: General provisions

Article 345

…grounds of legitimate suspicion or to which the member whose disqualification is requested belongs, and the member concerned, shall be notified by any means by the first president of the request submi…

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