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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 710

All disputes relating to enforcement are brought before the court or tribunal that handed down the sentence; this court may also rectify purely material errors contained in its decisions. In consideri…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter III: Verification and recovery of costs.

Article 707

If the opposing party does not contest within the time limit, the pursuer may ask the verifying clerk to mention this on the verification certificate. This mention is equivalent to a writ of execution…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
4 : Smoothing or spreading devices

Article 75

…irst paragraph may not give rise to the deduction for precautionary savings provided for in article 73, nor benefit from the allowances provided for in article 73 B and the averaging scheme provided f…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 770

…ith the rules of jurisdiction and procedure laid down by the second and third paragraphs of Article 778. When the decision has been removed from the criminal record, the mention of this decision must…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Section 3: Air transport.

Article 78

1. Aircraft making an international journey must follow the air route imposed on them in order to cross the border. 2 They may only land at customs airports.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Opening of estates, universal title and seisin

Article 721

Inheritances devolve in accordance with the law when the deceased has not disposed of his property by gifts. They may devolve by gifts from the deceased to the extent compatible with the hereditary re…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 6: Public-interest mission and marketing of structured deposits

Article L775-7

…nd column of the same table: Articles applicable In the wording resulting from L. 511-104 Order no. 2014-158 of 20 February 2014 L. 511-105Order 2016-827 of 23 June 2016

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Provisions applicable to natural persons

Article 791

The public prosecutor obtains all relevant information from the various places where the sentenced person may have stayed.He also takes the opinion of the sentence enforcement judge.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection I: Judgment on jurisdiction

Article 78

The judge may, in the same judgment, but by separate provisions, declare himself competent and rule on the merits of the dispute, after having, where appropriate, first given the parties notice to con…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Execution of the international letter rogatory by the judicial court

Article 741

The assigned judge is required to inform the assigning court, at its request, of the place, day and time at which the execution of the letter rogatory will take place; the foreign assigning judge may…

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