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This decision provides important insight into your property law. Here is what it changes for you.

The situation

No legal or contractual provision prevents notification to a person, even one previously held in police custody, irrespective of the duration of that measure, of an arrest warrant, which is to be understood as the order given by the investigating judge to the police force to bring the person before him. The formalities provided for in Article 127 of the Code of Criminal Procedure are complied with where the person concerned is presented within the legal time limit to the public prosecutor, who has territorial jurisdiction by reason of the place where the person is located, after the end of the police custody, carried out pursuant to a letter rogatory, when the arrest warrant just issued by the investigating judge is notified to him.

What the law says

This decision confirms the fundamental principles of property law.

Key points to remember

• Strictly comply with the legal time limits for appeals
• Keep all your supporting documents (title deeds, instruments, correspondence)
• Plan ahead: preventive advice always costs less than litigation

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