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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 190

The public prosecutor, in all cases to which article 184, may and must request the nullity of the marriage, during the lifetime of both spouses, and have them ordered to separate.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 191

Any marriage which has not been contracted publicly, and which has not been celebrated before the competent public officer, may be contested, within a period of thirty years from its celebration, by t…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 193

…d by article 165, even if such contraventions are not deemed sufficient to render the marriage null and void.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 197

If, however, in the case of articles 194 and 195, there are children from two individuals who have lived publicly as husband and wife, and who are both deceased, the legitimacy of the children cannot…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 195

Possession of status may not exempt the alleged spouses who invoke it, respectively, from representing the act of celebration of the marriage before the civil registrar.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 198

…the marriage has full civil effects from the day of its celebration, both in respect of the spouses and in respect of the children of the marriage.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 199

…inal action may be brought by all those who have an interest in having the marriage declared valid, and by the public prosecutor.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Applications for nullity of marriage

Article 196

Where there is possession of status, and the act of celebration of the marriage before the civil registrar is represented, the spouses are respectively inadmissible to request the nullity of this act.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
Section V: Provisions common to taxes for which the accounting officers of the Directorate General of Public Finance are responsible for collection

Article 1912

…A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall set the applicable rate of costs for each category of document and the procedures for applying this paragraph. The ancillary costs of proceedings are set by decree…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter III: Interest-bearing loans.

Article 1907

Interest is legal or conventional. Legal interest is fixed by law. Conventional interest may exceed that of the law, whenever the law does not prohibit it. The rate of conventional interest must be fi…

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