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Article 676 of the French Civil Code

The owner of an unpartitioned wall, immediately adjoining the inheritance of another, may make in that wall days or windows with meshed iron and dead glass.

Such windows shall be fitted with an iron lattice, the mesh of which shall not exceed one decimetre (approximately three inches eight lines) in aperture, and with a sash with dead glass.

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Article 676

Le propriétaire d’un mur non mitoyen, joignant immédiatement l’héritage d’autrui, peut pratiquer dans ce mur des jours ou fenêtres à fer maillé et verre dormant.

Ces fenêtres doivent être garnies d’un treillis de fer dont les mailles auront un décimètre (environ trois pouces huit lignes) d’ouverture au plus et d’un châssis à verre dormant.

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