French Code of civil procedure

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.

Third-party proceedings are open on a principal basis for thirty years from the date of the judgment unless the law provides otherwise. The third-party proceedings may be brought without any time limit against a judgment produced in the course of other proceedings by the party against whom they are brought. In contentious matters, however, it is only admissible on the part of the third party to whom the judgment has…