The seizure of a property under criminal law is enforceable against third parties from the date of publication of the decision ordering the seizure in the mortgage office or, for the departments of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle, in the land register for the location of the property. The formalities for this publication are carried out, on behalf of the public prosecutor or the investigating judge, by the Agency for the Management and Recovery of Seized and Confiscated Assets.
Until the criminal seizure of the property is released or the property is confiscated, the seizure relates to the full value of the property, without prejudice to previously registered liens and mortgages or the liens referred to in article 2378 of the civil code and arising prior to the date of publication of the decision to seize the property under criminal law.
The prior publication of a summons to seize the property does not prevent publication of the decision to seize the property under criminal law.