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The New Civil Procedure Code formally replaced the former Napoleonic Code of Civil Procedure of 1807 in accordance with Article 26 of the 20 December 2007 Legal Simplification Act (n 2007-1787). [1] The Napoleonic Civil Procedure Code had already undergone drastic changes since 1973, with the adoption of the Decree n 75-1123 [ 2 ] and other ...
The Court of Cassation (Cour de cassation) is the highest court and the only national court on civil and criminal matters. [3] It has six chambers, five civil chambers: (i) on contract, (ii) on delict, (iii) on family matters, (iv) on commercial matters, (v) on social matters: labour and social security law; and (vi) on criminal law. [48]
At the bottom of the court hierarchy are the courts of minor jurisdiction, [4] which may sit as police courts (tribunal de police) to hear summary offenses (such as traffic violations, limited assault, breach of peace) [4] or as civil courts (tribunal d'instance) to hear minor civil cases. [4]
Univa was a software company that developed workload management and cloud management products for compute-intensive applications in the data center and across public, private, and hybrid clouds, before being acquired by Altair Engineering in September 2020.
Jean Carbonnier renewed the French Civil Code, especially in the domain of Family Law. He wrote a major Treatise on Civil Law (Droit civil), which is not only a theoretical work, but also shows links with history, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy. The author defined the French Civil Code as the "Civil Constitution of French people," i.e ...
The French Penal Code of 1791 was a penal code adopted during the French Revolution by the Constituent Assembly, between 25 September and 6 October 1791.It was France's first penal code, and was influenced by the Enlightenment thinking of Montesquieu and Cesare Beccaria.
The pacte civil de solidarité, a form of civil union, introduced in 1999, allows same-sex unions. A bill granting same-sex couples the right to marry and jointly adopt children was adopted by the National Assembly on 18 May 2013 by Law 2013-404
In 1965, there were local civil protection societies in 26 departments.Following a call from Prime minister Georges Pompidou, the national federation of civil protection (Fédération nationale de protection civile) was constituted on December 14, 1965, in Paris, in order to manage these local societies and to raise popular awareness on civil defense. [4]