Article 576 of the French Code of civil procedure
The case shall be investigated and judged in accordance with the rules applicable before the court that handed down the decision against which opposition has been lodged.
The case shall be investigated and judged in accordance with the rules applicable before the court that handed down the decision against which opposition has been lodged.
In the renewed proceedings, the admissibility of the respective claims of the claimant and the opponent are assessed, in relation to the original claim, in accordance with the ordinary rules.
Anyone who allows himself to be judged a second time by default is no longer entitled to lodge a new opposition.
An appeal by an extraordinary route and the period allowed for exercising it shall not suspend execution unless otherwise provided by law.
Extraordinary remedies are available only in cases specified by law.
In the event of dilatory or abusive recourse, its author may be sentenced to a civil fine of a maximum of 10,000 euros, without prejudice to any damages that may be claimed from the court hearing the recourse.
The third party opposition seeks to have a judgment retracted or reformed in favour of the third party attacking it. It calls into question in relation to its author the points of judgment that it criticises, so that a new decision is made in fact and in law.
Any person who has an interest therein is admissible to lodge third-party proceedings, provided that he was neither a party nor represented in the judgment which he is contesting. The creditors and other successors in title of a party may, however, lodge third-party proceedings against a judgment given in fraud of their rights or if they rely on pleas that are specific to them. In non-contentious matters, third-party opposition is…
In the event of indivisibility with regard to several parties to the contested judgment, the third party opposition is admissible only if all these parties are called to the proceedings.
Any judgment is subject to third-party opposition if the law does not provide otherwise.
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