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Article 151 of the French Civil Code

The production of a copy, reduced to the operative part, of the judgment declaring the absence or ordering an enquiry into the absence of the father and mother, grandparents or grandmothers of one of the future spouses shall be equivalent to the production of their death certificates in the cases provided for in Articles 149, 150, 158 and 159 of this code.

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Article 151

La production de l’expédition, réduite au dispositif, du jugement qui aurait déclaré l’absence ou aurait ordonné l’enquête sur l’absence des père et mère, aïeuls ou aïeules de l’un des futurs époux équivaudra à la production de leurs actes de décès dans les cas prévus aux articles 149, 150, 158 et 159 du présent code.

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