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Showing 7180 of 33065 articles for Art. Cass. 3e Civ. 6-7-1982 n° 1162

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Recognition of judicial review decisions

Article 696-70

The juge des libertés et de la détention shall have jurisdiction, under the conditions laid down in this chapter, to rule on applications for recognition of judicial supervision orders issued by the c…

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

Article 63-7

When it is essential for the purposes of the investigation to carry out a full search of a person in police custody, this must be decided by a judicial police officer and carried out in an enclosed ar…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title XXI: Communication by electronic means.

Article 748-6

The technical procedures used must guarantee, under conditions laid down by order of the Minister of Justice, the reliability of the identification of the parties to the electronic communication, the…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection II: Service of documents from abroad.

Article 688-7

Documents evidencing the execution or non-execution of requests for service shall be transmitted back through the same channels by which the requests were forwarded.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: The nature, amount and exercise of rights

Article 758-6

Gifts received from the deceased by the surviving spouse are deducted from the latter's rights in the succession. Where the gifts thus received are less than the rights defined in articles 757 and 757…

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

Article 689-7

For the application of the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, done at Montreal on 24 February 1988, supplementary to the Conven…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Mutual assistance for the purposes of hearings, surveillance or infiltration

Article 694-7

With the prior agreement of the Minister of Justice to whom a request for mutual legal assistance has been made for this purpose, foreign police officers may pursue undercover operations on the territ…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Sub-title II: Courts with jurisdiction to prosecute, investigate and try crimes against humanity and war crimes and offences

Article 628-7

As an exception to Article 712-10, only the Sentence Enforcement Judge of the Paris Judicial Court has jurisdiction, the tribunal de l'application des peines de Paris and the chambre de l'application…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Recognition of judicial review decisions

Article 696-77

Subject to the suspension of the time limit resulting from the notification given to the competent authority of the issuing State pursuant to Article 696-72, the liberty and custody judge shall decide…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: Recognition of judicial review decisions

Article 696-78

The decision of the liberty and custody judge taken pursuant to the first paragraph of article 696-70 shall be notified without delay to the person placed under judicial supervision. The latter is inf…

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