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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 728-12

…egal classification and full description of the facts ; 6° The nature of the custodial sentence or detention order to be served, its total duration, the portion already served and the expected date of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 728-10

…ber State of the European Union, of final criminal sentences involving deprivation of liberty or a detention order handed down by the French courts and to the recognition and enforcement in France of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 728-11

…n by a French court or a court of a Member State may be transmitted, as the case may be, by the competent French authority for the purposes of recognition and enforcement in the enforcing State or to…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 728-14

…and all documents relating to the enforcement of the sentence as well as any exchange relating thereto shall be carried out directly, as the case may be, with the competent authorities of the sentenc…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 728-13

…cation for recognition and enforcement and shall preclude enforcement of the custodial sentence or detention order pursuant to this chapter.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Subsection 1: The application

Article 1180-7

The matter is referred to the judge by petition delivered or addressed to the registry of the judicial court. The application shall state, on pain of nullity, the surname, forenames and address of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Composition

Article L612-8-1

I.-The resolution college of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution is composed of seven members:1° The Governor of the Banque de France or his representative, Chairman ;2° The Director…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-18

…ns incumbent on a convicted offender subject to a semi-liberty measure, external placement or home detention under electronic surveillance, the sentence enforcement judge may, after consulting the pub…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Orders of heirs.

Article 738-1

Where only the father or mother survives and the deceased has neither posterity nor brothers or sisters nor descendants of the latter, but leaves one or more ascendants of a branch other than that of…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Qualifications for succession.

Article 725-1

…h in the same event, the order of death shall be established by any means. If this order cannot be determined, the succession of each shall devolve without the other being called. However, if one of t…

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