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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section X: Stamping machines

Article 633

In the various cases where, in tax matters, payment is evidenced by the affixing of stamps, vignettes or marks, the administration may authorise taxpayers to replace these figurines with imprints prin…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Party walls and ditches

Article 657

Any co-owner may build against a party wall, and have beams or joists placed in the full thickness of the wall, to within fifty-four millimetres, without prejudice to the neighbour's right to have the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Party walls and ditches

Article 658

…y co-owner may have the party wall raised; but he alone must pay the expense of the raising and the maintenance repairs above the height of the common fence; he alone must also pay the maintenance cos…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VII: Challenges

Article 670

The First President shall notify the President of the court to which the disqualified judge belongs of the application he has received in administrative form.The application for disqualification shall…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Effects of the appeal in cassation.

Article 625

It entails, without there being any need for a new decision, the annulment by consequence of any decision which is the consequence, application or execution of the judgment set aside or which is conne…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Costs.

Article 696

…may be charged all or part of the costs of the proceedings are set by the provisions of Law no. 91-647 of 10 July 1991 and Decree no. 2020-1717 of 28 December 2020.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Party walls and ditches

Article 668

A neighbour whose inheritance adjoins a non-dividing ditch or hedge cannot compel the owner of that ditch or hedge to surrender the common ownership to him. The joint owner of a party hedge may destro…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 5: Right of way

Article 682

An owner whose land is enclosed and who has no access, or insufficient access, to the public highway, either for the agricultural, industrial or commercial use of his property, or for the completion o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of French courts

Article 689

The perpetrators or accomplices of offences committed outside the territory of the Republic may be prosecuted and tried by the French courts either when, in accordance with the provisions of Book I of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Views onto a neighbour's property

Article 678

No person may have straight views or windows of appearance, nor balconies or other similar projections on the enclosed or unenclosed inheritance of his neighbour, unless there is a distance of ninetee…

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