Chapter I: Provisions specific to non-contentious matters.

The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure do not apply to the following matters: – guardianship, legal administrations and curatorships under local law; – judicial division and judicial sale of real estate, certificates of heirs, seals; – register of associations, matrimonial registers, and registers of cooperative associations under local law; – land register, only subject to the rules established, for each of these matters, by the law of 1st…

The matters listed in Article 2 fall within the jurisdiction of the judicial court in the first instance. The parties are exempt from the obligation to constitute a lawyer. Proceedings shall be oral.

In the matters listed in Articles 2 and 3, the following provisions shall apply.

Decisions of the judicial tribunal shall be notified by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. Decisions shall take effect from the day of their notification when the time limit for appeal is open without time limit.

Decisions may be amended ex officio except where the appeal is time-barred.

The appeal is open to any interested party. It is lodged, investigated and judged according to the rules applicable to non-contentious matters before the Court of Appeal. It may also be lodged by the party himself, or by a notary where he had already referred the matter to the court.

An appeal that is enclosed within a time limit is called an “immediate appeal”. The time limit for this appeal is fifteen days. It is extended, if necessary, in accordance with the provisions of articles 643 to 647 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

A decision authorising a particular act may no longer be amended or retracted if the act was validly concluded with a third party in good faith.

Where a person has been invested by a decision with a specific function or a general power of attorney, the acts that he has validly entered into with third parties in good faith are not affected if, subsequently, that decision is either modified or retracted, or overturned.