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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Sale of real estate and businesses belonging to minors under guardianship or adults under guardianship.

Article 1272

…person under guardianship resides.If the property is located in several arrondissements, the court may appoint a notary in each of these arrondissements and give letters rogatory to each of the court…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter IV: Sale of real estate and businesses belonging to minors under guardianship or adults under guardianship.

Article 1271

…f real estate and businesses belonging to minors under guardianship or to adults under guardianship may only be ordered on the basis of a deliberation by the family council stating the nature of the p…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Paragraph 6: Notifications

Article 1231

…e at the registry's behest are made by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt; the judge may, however, decide that they will be made by bailiff's deed. The issue of a certified copy of a de…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 4: The appeal.

Article 1246

The court may, even of its own motion, substitute a new decision for that of the guardianship judge or the deliberation of the family council. Until the close of the proceedings before the court, the…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article 1213

…4° of article 483, of article 484 or the article 494-10 of the Civil Code, the guardianship judge may order that the examination of the application give rise to an adversarial debate.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section I: General provisions

Article 129

…terms that he or she shall determine.The judge who must make a preliminary attempt at conciliation may order the parties to meet with a court conciliator who will inform them of the purpose and progr…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Chapter I: General system of acquits-à-caution.

Article 123

…rtificate of discharge given by the customs officers. 2. The Director General of Customs and Excise may, in order to prevent fraud, make the discharge of sureties given to guarantee the export or re-e…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IV: Judicial separation of property.

Article 1293

The judgment may not be given until one month after the entry provided for in the preceding article has been made in the margin of the birth certificate of each of the spouses or, if that certificate…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Declaration of absence

Article 122

…stablished the presumption of absence, either in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 112, or during one of the legal proceedings provided for in articles 217 and 219, 1426 and 1429, abse…

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

Article 125

…e questioned under the same conditions. However, if the questioning cannot be immediate, the person may be held by the police or gendarmerie for a maximum of twenty-four hours following his arrest bef…

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