Code of Organization and Civil Procedure (Cap. 12)
Code of Organization and Civil Procedure (Cap. 12), article 201
201. If the defendant or his advocate, or, in the causes before
the inferior courts, the defendant or his advocate or legal
procurator, fails to appear, the cause may be determined according
to law on the acts available after hearing such evidence as the court
may consider necessary, notwithstanding his default of appearance.
Regulation of trial.
Substituted by:
XXIV.1995.103.
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