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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Objections to marriage

Article 174

In the absence of an ascendant, a brother or sister, uncle or aunt, cousin or first cousin, of full age, may object only in the following two cases:1° Where the consent of the family council, required…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Declaration of absence

Article 131

Any interested party who has caused a declaration of absence to be made by fraud shall be required to restore to the absent person whose existence is judicially established the income from the propert…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Legal administration

Article 383

Where the interests of the sole legal administrator or, as the case may be, of both legal administrators are in opposition to those of the minor, the latter shall request the appointment of an ad hoc…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions common to judicial measures

Article 428

Judicial protection measures may only be ordered by the judge in cases of necessity and where the person's interests cannot be sufficiently provided for by implementing the future protection mandate c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Powers of the public prosecutor

Article 40-4

When the victim wishes to act as a civil party and requests the appointment of a lawyer after having been informed of this right pursuant to 3° of Article 10-2, the public prosecutor, notified by the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 63-6

Security measures designed to ensure that the person in police custody is not in possession of any object dangerous to himself or to others are defined by order of the competent ministerial authority.…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 133-1

In the cases provided for by articles 125,127and 133, when the person is detained by the police or gendarmerie before being brought before a magistrate, the public prosecutor for the place of arrest i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 169

If, at a hearing before a trial court, a person heard as a witness or for information contradicts the conclusions of an expert report or provides new information from a technical point of view, the pr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 9: Expertise

Article 160

Experts not included on any of the lists mentioned in article 157 shall, each time they are appointed, take the oath provided for by the loi n° 71-498 du 29 juin 1971 relative aux experts judiciaires…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Background files

Article 230-11

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat, issued after consultation with the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, shall lay down the terms and conditions for the application of this section.…

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