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Article 982 of the French Code of civil procedure

The respondent to the appeal has a period of two months from the service of the appellant’s statement of case to submit to the registry of the Cour de cassation a statement in response signed by a lawyer at the Conseil d’Etat and at the Cour de cassation and to notify it to the appellant’s lawyer in the form of notifications between lawyers.

The period provided for in the preceding paragraph is prescribed on pain of inadmissibility, pronounced ex officio, of the statement in response.

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Article 982

Le défendeur au pourvoi dispose d’un délai de deux mois à compter de la signification du mémoire du demandeur pour remettre au greffe de la Cour de cassation un mémoire en réponse signé d’un avocat au Conseil d’Etat et à la Cour de cassation et le notifier à l’avocat du demandeur dans la forme des notifications entre avocats.

Le délai prévu à l’alinéa précédent est prescrit à peine d’irrecevabilité, prononcée d’office, du mémoire en réponse.

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