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In France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, Luxembourg
Luxembourg

Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a small landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany....
, the French Community of Belgium
French Community of Belgium

The French Community of Belgium is one of the three Communities and regions of Belgium#Communities in Belgium along with the Flemish Community and the German speaking community in Belgium....
 and Québec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
 a huissier de justice or in the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 and the Flemish Community
Flemish Community

The term Flemish Community has two distinct, though related, meanings:# Culturally and sociologically, it refers to Flemish organizations, media, social and cultural life; alternative expressions for this concept might be the "Flemings" or the "Flemish nation" ....
 a (gerechts)deurwaarder, is a member of the legal profession whose responsibility includes formally bearing witness to events or situations (constat d'huissier); signification, a form of service of process
Service of process

Service of process is the procedure employed to give legal notice to a person of a court or administrative agency body's exercise of its jurisdiction over that person so as to enable that person to respond to the proceeding before the court, body or other tribunal....
; making the decisions of the court
Court

A court is a body, often a government institution, with the authority to adjudication legal disputes and dispense private law, criminal justice, or administrative law justice in accordance with rules of law....
s available to the public; and execution of the courts' decisions, such as seizures
Search and seizure

Search and seizure is a legal procedure used in many Civil law and common law legal systems whereby police or other authorities and their agents, who suspect that a crime has been committed, do a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant evidence to the crime....
 and eviction
Eviction

Eviction is the removal of a tenant from leasehold estate by the landlord.Depending on the laws of the jurisdiction, eviction may also be known as unlawful detainer, summary possession, summary dispossess, forcible detainer, ejectment, and repossession, among other terms....
s.

The most common British English
British English

British English or UK English is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere....
 translation for huissier de justice is "bailiff
Bailiff

Bailiff is a governor or custodian ; a legal officer to whom some degree of authority, care or jurisdiction is committed. Bailiffs are of various kinds and their offices and duties vary greatly....
" (and sometimes "sheriff
Sheriff

A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country....
 officer"); note however that French huissiers de justice are not government employees and do not have police powers.

In France, as of 1 July, 2003, there were 3,258 huissiers de justice in 2,047 chambers.








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In France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, Luxembourg
Luxembourg

Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a small landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany....
, the French Community of Belgium
French Community of Belgium

The French Community of Belgium is one of the three Communities and regions of Belgium#Communities in Belgium along with the Flemish Community and the German speaking community in Belgium....
 and Québec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
 a huissier de justice or in the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 and the Flemish Community
Flemish Community

The term Flemish Community has two distinct, though related, meanings:# Culturally and sociologically, it refers to Flemish organizations, media, social and cultural life; alternative expressions for this concept might be the "Flemings" or the "Flemish nation" ....
 a (gerechts)deurwaarder, is a member of the legal profession whose responsibility includes formally bearing witness to events or situations (constat d'huissier); signification, a form of service of process
Service of process

Service of process is the procedure employed to give legal notice to a person of a court or administrative agency body's exercise of its jurisdiction over that person so as to enable that person to respond to the proceeding before the court, body or other tribunal....
; making the decisions of the court
Court

A court is a body, often a government institution, with the authority to adjudication legal disputes and dispense private law, criminal justice, or administrative law justice in accordance with rules of law....
s available to the public; and execution of the courts' decisions, such as seizures
Search and seizure

Search and seizure is a legal procedure used in many Civil law and common law legal systems whereby police or other authorities and their agents, who suspect that a crime has been committed, do a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant evidence to the crime....
 and eviction
Eviction

Eviction is the removal of a tenant from leasehold estate by the landlord.Depending on the laws of the jurisdiction, eviction may also be known as unlawful detainer, summary possession, summary dispossess, forcible detainer, ejectment, and repossession, among other terms....
s.

The most common British English
British English

British English or UK English is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere....
 translation for huissier de justice is "bailiff
Bailiff

Bailiff is a governor or custodian ; a legal officer to whom some degree of authority, care or jurisdiction is committed. Bailiffs are of various kinds and their offices and duties vary greatly....
" (and sometimes "sheriff
Sheriff

A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country....
 officer"); note however that French huissiers de justice are not government employees and do not have police powers.

In France, as of 1 July, 2003, there were 3,258 huissiers de justice in 2,047 chambers.

See also

  • Huissier
    Huissier

    The French word huissier comes from huis, that is, a door. The word huissier thus designates two professions that originally had to do with opening and closing doors....


External links

Handbook of the Hague Service Convention
Hague Service Convention

The Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters, more commonly called the Hague Service Convention, is a multilateral treaty which was signed in The Hague on 15 November 1965 by members of the Hague Conference on Private International Law....
 — explains the difference between signification and notification in legal systems based on the Napoleonic Code
Napoleonic code

The Napoleonic Code, or Code Napol?on is the France civil code, established under Napoleon I of France in 1804. It was drafted rapidly by a commission of four eminent jurists and entered into force on March 21, 1804....