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Article 862 of the French General Tax Code

Notaries, bailiffs, registrars and other public officers, lawyers and administrative authorities may not make or draw up a deed by virtue of or as a consequence of a deed compulsorily subject to registration or to the merged formality, annex it to their minutes, receive it for deposit or issue it as a patent, extract, copy or expedition, before one or other formality has been carried out, even if the time…

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Article 863 of the French General Tax Code

The notary who receives a deed of sale, exchange or division is required to inform the parties of the existence of the penalties laid down by articles 850 and 1837. Express mention of this information is made in the deed.

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Article 864 of the French General Tax Code

A notary who receives a treaty for the transfer of a ministerial office or a deed of sale, exchange or division or a deed for the transfer of the right to a lease or the benefit of a promise to lease relating to all or part of an immovable property is required to inform the parties of the existence of the penalties laid down in 5 of V of article…

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Article 866 of the French General Tax Code

With the exception of deeds in criminal matters and deeds from lawyer to lawyer, bailiffs are required to draw up their deeds and minutes in two originals; one, exempt from all tax formalities, is given to the party or his representative and the other is kept by the bailiff, under conditions that are laid down by a decree in the Council of State. As an exception to the provisions of…

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Article 867 of the French General Tax Code

I. – Notaries, bailiffs, clerks and secretaries of central administrations shall keep columnar directories, on which they shall enter, day by day, and in order of number, namely: 1° Notaries, all deeds they receive; 2° Bailiffs, all deeds of their ministry; 3° Clerks, all deeds and judgments which, under the terms of this code, must be recorded on the minutes as well as the minutes mentioned in 6° of 2…

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Article 868 of the French General Tax Code

In addition to their obligations under Article 867, bailiffs and court clerks shall keep, in a register, listed and initialled under the conditions provided for in the second paragraph of III of Article 867, columnar directories in which they shall enter, day by day, without blanks or spaces and in numbered order, all deeds, judgments and rulings that are exempt from the formality of registration. Each article in the register…

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Article 870 of the French General Tax Code

The designation of buildings, according to current cadastral data, is compulsory in all deeds and private sub-seeds, or judgments transferring, declaring, constituting or extinguishing ownership or rights in rem in immovable property.

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Article 871 of the French General Tax Code

Moveables, effects, merchandise, wood, fruit, crops and all other movable objects may only be sold publicly and by auction, in the presence and through the ministry of public officers with authority to do so, or by sworn merchandise brokers or declared operators of voluntary sales of movable property by public auction.

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Article 873 of the French General Tax Code

Each item awarded is entered immediately in the minutes, the price written in full and drawn off the line in figures. Each session is closed and signed by the public officer, the sworn goods broker or the person authorised to conduct the sale. When a sale takes place as a result of an inventory, this is mentioned in the minutes, with an indication of the date of the inventory, the…

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