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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Effects of acceptance of the succession up to the amount of the net assets.

Article 791

Acceptance up to the net assets gives the heir the advantage: 1° Of avoiding the confusion of his personal property with that of the succession; 2° Of retaining against it all the rights he previously…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Effects of acceptance of the succession up to the amount of the net assets.

Article 792

…d provisionally on the basis of an assessment. Failure to declare within fifteen months of the publication provided for in Article 788, unsecured claims on the estate's assets are extinguished with re…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Effects of acceptance of the succession up to the amount of the net assets.

Article 797

…available. Where he is unable to dispose of it to the creditors within this period, in particular because of a dispute concerning the order or nature of the claims, he shall record the sums available…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Jurisdiction in the event of war, mobilisation, a state of siege or a state of emergency

Article 700

…y.Insofar as they concern procedure, the laws on a state of siege and a state of emergency are applicable only if they are compatible with the provisions of military criminal procedure relating to war…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Crimes and offences against the fundamental interests of the Nation

Article 701

…the code of military justice. However, the Public Prosecutor shall have the authority to perform or cause to be performed acts required by the urgency and to request for this purpose the investigating…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XII: Applications for relief from prohibitions, disqualifications, incapacities or publication measures

Article 703

Any application by a convicted person to be relieved of a prohibition, disqualification, incapacity or publication measure, made pursuant to the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 702-1 spec…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Jurisdiction of specialised inter-regional courts in economic and financial matters

Article 704

In cases which are or would appear to be of great complexity, due in particular to the large number of perpetrators, accomplices or victims or the geographical jurisdiction over which they extend, the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 706

…vestigating division mentioned in article 52-1 or a judicial court mentioned in articles 704 or 705 category A or B civil servants and persons holding, in matters defined by decree, of a national dipl…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 712

In all cases where it appears necessary to hear a convicted offender who is detained, the court seised may issue a letter rogatory to the president of the judicial court closest to the place of detent…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 708

…police sentence or a non-custodial correctional sentence may be suspended or split for serious medical, family, professional or social reasons. The decision is taken either by the public prosecutor o…

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