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French General Tax CodeIn force
1: Definition of farm profits

Article 63

For the purposes of income tax, profits from farming are deemed to be the income that the farming of rural property provides either to farmers, sharecroppers or to the farming owners themselves.These…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Incidental claims.

Article 63

Incidental claims are: counterclaim, additional claim and intervention.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Effects of the appeal in cassation.

Article 633

The admissibility of new claims is subject to the rules that apply before the court whose decision has been set aside.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Effects of the appeal in cassation.

Article 638

The case shall be re-adjudicated in fact and in law by the referring court excluding the counts not affected by the cassation.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Effects of the appeal in cassation.

Article 634

Parties who do not formulate new pleas or new claims are deemed to stand by the pleas and claims which they had submitted to the court whose decision has been quashed. The same applies to those who do…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Effects of the appeal in cassation.

Article 635

The intervention of third parties is subject to the same rules as apply before the court whose decision has been set aside.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Effects of the appeal in cassation.

Article 637

Such persons may, subject to the same condition, take the initiative themselves to refer the matter to the referring court.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Effects of the appeal in cassation.

Article 639

The referring court shall rule on all costs incurred before the courts hearing the case, including those relating to the decision set aside.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Effects of the appeal in cassation.

Article 632

The parties may put forward new pleas in support of their claims.

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section II: Effects of the appeal in cassation.

Article 631

Before the referring court, the investigation is resumed in the state of the proceedings not affected by the cassation.

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