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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Title IX: Intervention.

Article 326

If the intervention risks excessively delaying the judgment on the whole, the judge shall first rule on the principal cause, unless he then rules on the intervention.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter I: Voluntary intervention.

Article 329

An intervention is principal when it raises a claim for the benefit of the person making it.It is admissible only if its author has the right to act in relation to that claim.

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French Customs CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: General and compulsory formalities on pain of nullity of seizure reports.

Article 324

1. (a) As far as circumstances permit, seized goods and means of transport shall be taken to and deposited at the Customs office or post nearest to the place of seizure. Where there are several Custom…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Production and discussion of evidence

Article 329

Witnesses called by the public prosecutor or the parties shall be heard in the debate, even if they have not given evidence at the hearing, or if they have not been summoned, provided that their names…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Production and discussion of evidence

Article 326

Where a witness summoned fails to appear, the court may, on the application of the public prosecutor or even of its own motion, order that the witness be immediately brought before the court by the fo…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 322

…e action may be brought by the heirs of a deceased person before the expiry of the period that was allowed to the deceased person to bring the action. The heirs may also continue the action already br…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Preliminary chapter: General provisions

Article 321

This Title does not apply to taxes collected and controlled in accordance with the same procedures and subject to the same penalties, guarantees, securities and privileges as indirect contributions or…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Actions to establish parentage

Article 329

Where the presumption of paternity has been set aside pursuant to Article 313, each of the spouses may request, during the child's minority, that its effects be re-established by proving that the husb…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Effects on French nationality of transfers of sovereignty relating to certain territories

Article 32

French nationals originating from the territory of the French Republic, as constituted on 28 July 1960, and who were domiciled on the day of its accession to independence in the territory of a State w…

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French Customs CodeIn force
Preliminary chapter: General provisions

Article 322

Official reports, summonses, notifications, orders and other documents drawn up in connection with the implementation of the powers of investigation, recording and prosecution provided for in this Cod…

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