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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title IV: Citations and meanings

Article 563

…e as well as the responses that have been made to his various interpellations.The public prosecutor may order the bailiff to carry out new searches, if he considers that those that have been carried o…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Sub-title I: Common provisions.

Article 533

If the party who served the judgment is deceased, the action may be served at the domicile of the deceased, on his heirs and representatives, collectively and without designation of names and capaciti…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
c: Taxation based on actual profits

Article 57

…information available to it and in accordance with the adversarial procedure defined in articles L. 57 to L. 61 of the same book. In the absence of precise information to make the rectifications provi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: The Examining Magistrate

Article 50

…ourt, is appointed in the forms provided for the appointment of judges. If necessary, another judge may be temporarily entrusted, in the same forms, with the duties of investigating judge concurrently…

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

Article 54

…seful observations.He ensures the preservation of evidence likely to disappear and of anything that may serve to reveal the truth. He seizes the weapons and instruments that were used to commit the cr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: The Examining Magistrate

Article 52

The investigating judge of the place where the offence was committed, the investigating judge of the place of residence of one of the persons suspected of having taken part in the offence, the investi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Manufacturers

Article 533

Manufacturers of gold, silver and platinum articles are required to make themselves known to the office of guarantee on which they depend and to have their particular hallmark inscribed there, with th…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Trial procedures

Article 530

…vice or the approved inspection body is found to be lower than the declared legal title, a new test may be carried out if the owner so requests. When the new test confirms the result of the first, the…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter II: Preparation, audit and approval of accounts

Article 513

As an exception to articles 510 to 512, the judge may decide to exempt the guardian from submitting the management account for approval in consideration of the protected person's modest income or asse…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Declarations of birth.

Article 57

…ly impossible to determine the child's sex on the day the record is drawn up, the public prosecutor may authorise the civil registrar not to include the sex immediately on the birth record. The medica…

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