Chapter I: Calculation of time limits.

Where an act or formality must be completed before the expiry of a time limit, the time limit originates from the date of the act, event, decision or notification that causes it to run.

Where a time limit is expressed in days, the day of the act, event, decision or notification which causes it to run shall not count. Where a time limit is expressed in months or years, the time limit shall expire on the day of the last month or year which bears the same number as the day of the act, event, decision or notification which causes the time limit to…

Any time limit shall expire at twenty-four hours on the last day. A time limit which would normally expire on a Saturday, Sunday or public or bank holiday shall be extended until the next working day. .

The provisions of articles 640 to 642 also apply to the time limits within which registrations and other publicity formalities must be carried out.

Where the claim is brought before a court whose registered office is in mainland France, the time limits for appearance, appeal, opposition, third-party opposition in the hypothesis provided for in Article 586 paragraph 3, of appeal for review and of appeal in cassation are increased by: 1. One month for persons residing in Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, La Réunion, Mayotte, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands, New…

Where the claim is brought before a court whose registered office is in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, Mayotte, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, the time limits for appearance, appeal, third-party opposition in the hypothesis provided for in Article 586 alinéa 3, and for appeals for review are increased by one month for persons who do not reside in the territorial collectivity in whose jurisdiction the…

The increases in time limits provided for in articles 643 and 644 apply in all cases where they are not expressly derogated from. The time limits for judicial appeals in election matters are subject to extension only in the cases specified by law.

The foregoing provisions shall not preclude the power of judges, in urgent cases, to shorten time limits for appearing or to allow summonses to be issued on a fixed date.

Where a document intended for a party domiciled in a place where he would benefit from an extension of time is served on his person in a place where those who reside there would not benefit from it, such service shall carry only the time limits granted to the latter.

The date of service, including when it must be made within a specified period, of a judicial or extrajudicial document in French Polynesia, in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in New Caledonia and in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories and abroad is, with regard to the person who serves it, the date of dispatch of the document by the bailiff or the registry or, failing that, the date of…