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Showing 5160 of 47047 articles for Art. Cass. com. 7 February 1995 n° 318 · Cass. com. 17 November 1998 · Cass. com. 19 October 1999 · Cass. com. 11 January 2017 n° 15-22.382 · CA Versailles 19 January 2016 · Cass. com. 17 May 1994

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-19

Where the criminal court considers refusing to enforce a confiscation order on the basis of one of the grounds referred to in 1°, 3° and 7° of article 713-20 or article 713-22, it shall, before taking…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Receipt of applications for recognition and monitoring of convictions and probation decisions

Article 764-19

…c prosecutor is the one in whose jurisdiction the convicted person's lawful habitual residence is located. Failing this, the public prosecutor at the Paris judicial court has jurisdiction. If the publ…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 5: Notifications and copies of decisions

Article 1180-17

Copies of the judge's decisions may only be issued to the applicant, the parents and, where applicable, the ad hoc administrator. Interested minors who have reached the age of majority may obtain copi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-19

…l supervision, a suspended or split sentence or conditional release, the sentence enforcement judge may order, after consulting the public prosecutor, the provisional incarceration of the convicted of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Transmission of the request by the public prosecutor.

Article 728-19

…xecuting State a certified copy of the sentencing decision and the original or a copy of the certificate referred to in article 728-12 and, where applicable, a copy of the record of the hearing of the…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IIc : Mobile electronic anti-seizure devices for the protection of victims of violence

Article 1136-17

…nces separating the two parties. The pre-alert distance, expressed as a whole number of kilometres, may not be less than one kilometre or more than ten kilometres. The warning distance, expressed as a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Designation procedures

Article R23-112-19

…ble to appoint a representative within the time limit set by the order referred to in Article R. 23-112-10 or if a member of the Commission ceases to hold office, another member may be appointed to th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Provisions relating to the recognition and monitoring, in the territory of other Member States of the European Union, of convictions and probation decisions handed down by French courts

Article 764-17

Where the sentence is the subject of an amnesty, pardon or revision having the effect of depriving it, immediately or otherwise, of its enforceability, the public prosecutor shall inform the competent…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 3: Provisions relating to the enforcement of confiscation orders issued by the courts of another Member State of the European Union

Article 713-17

The criminal court may stay the proceedings where it deems it necessary to translate the decision or where the property is already subject either to a seizure or freezing measure or to a final confisc…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Jurisdiction

Article 706-19

…sdiction regardless of the incriminations retained at the time of the settlement or judgment of the case, subject to the application of articles 181 and 469. If the facts constitute a contravention, t…

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