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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Costs.

Article 698

…rocedures shall be borne by the court officers who made them, without prejudice to any damages that may be claimed. The same applies to costs relating to instances, acts and enforcement procedures tha…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Party walls and ditches

Article 660

A neighbour who has not contributed to the heightening may acquire joint ownership of it by paying half the expense it has cost and the value of half the soil provided for the excess thickness, if any…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Party walls and ditches

Article 662

One of the neighbours may not make any indentation in the body of a party wall, or apply or support any work thereon without the consent of the other, or without having, on his refusal, caused to be s…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Marriage certificates.

Article 64

…the previous article will remain affixed to the door of the common house for ten days. The marriage may not be celebrated before the tenth day since and not including that of publication. If posting i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Applications for review and reconsideration

Article 622

Revision of a final criminal judgment may be requested for the benefit of any person convicted of a felony or misdemeanour where, after conviction, a new fact occurs or a factor unknown to the court o…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 3: Views onto a neighbour's property

Article 676

The owner of an unpartitioned wall, immediately adjoining the inheritance of another, may make in that wall days or windows with meshed iron and dead glass. Such windows shall be fitted with an iron l…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Judgments of the Cour de cassation

Article 612

…tion refers the case back to the judges who must hear it and designates them. The Cour de cassation may annul only part of the decision where the nullity vitiates only one or some of these provisions.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title V: Judges' rules

Article 658

…ber, which shall rule on a request submitted by the public prosecutor or the parties. This decision may be appealed to the Supreme Court.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to confiscation orders issued by French courts

Article 713-6

In principle, the confiscation order is transmitted for enforcement to a single State. If the confiscation order relates to specific items of property, the public prosecutor shall transmit it, togethe…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to electronic voting

Article R4311-64

…electronic voting via the Internet is organised within the framework laid down by Act no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, as amended, relating to information technology, files and civil liberties and in com…

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