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Showing 141150 of 31518 articles for Art. Cass. 3e civ. 10-6-1971 n° 70-12.678

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

Article 708

A person who intends to contest the audit may always submit an application for a tax order himself; he may also do so through his representative. The application is made orally or in writing to the re…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Assessment of costs to be recovered by the Registry

Article 701

The costs provided for in Article 695 (1° and 3°) shall be liquidated in the judgment awarding them or by a note affixed to the minutes by one of the judges of the court. Excerpts of the judgment may…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Assessment of costs to be recovered by the Registry

Article 703

The liquidation may be contested in accordance with the procedure set out in articles 708 to 718.

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

Article 706

The pursuing party shall notify the audited account to the opposing party, who shall have a period of one month in which to contest it. The notification implies acceptance by its author of the audited…

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

Article 709

The president of the court or the magistrate delegated for this purpose shall decide by order in the light of the audited account and any other relevant documents, after having received the observatio…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Assessment of costs to be recovered by the Registry

Article 702

Where the amount of the liquidated costs does not appear in the dispatch of the judgment, the court clerk shall issue a writ of execution..

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Rights of the owner of the land to which the easement is owed

Article 702

On his part, one who has a right of easement may use it only according to his title, without being able to make, either in the land which owes the easement, or in the land to which it is owed, any cha…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: How easements are extinguished

Article 705

Any easement is extinguished when the land to which it is owed, and the one who owes it, are united in the same hand.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 4: How easements are extinguished

Article 706

The easement is extinguished by non-use for thirty years.

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