Chapter III: The Grace Period.

Subject to the following paragraphs, the period of grace may only be granted by the decision whose enforcement it is intended to defer. In urgent cases, the same power lies with the interim relief judge. After service of a summons or act of seizure or from the hearing provided for by the article R. 3252-17 of the French Labour Code, as appropriate, the enforcement judge has jurisdiction to grant a…

The time limit runs from the day of the judgment when it is adversarial; in other cases it runs only from the day of notification of the judgment.

The period of grace may not be granted to a debtor whose property is seized by other creditors or to a debtor who has, by his own act, diminished the guarantees which he had given by contract to his creditor. In these same cases, the debtor loses the benefit of the period of grace which he would previously have obtained. .

The grace period does not preclude precautionary measures.