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Chapter 3. - Proof of Civil Status

Art. 42Modes of Proof
Art. 43Appointment by Administration
Art. 44Quarters or Sections of Communes
Art. 45Assistants to Civil Status Officer
Art. 46Commencement of Duties
Art. 47Termination of Duties
Art. 48Death or Lasting Impediment
Art. 49Head of Commune
Art. 50Departmental Office
Art. 51Consuls of Eritrea
Art. 52Commanding Officers of Ships
Art. 53Principle
Art. 54Keeping and Conservation of Registers
Art. 55Drawing up of Records
Art. 56Periods
Art. 57Records to be Drawn after Prescribed Periods
Art. 58Declaration
Art. 59Regulations of Application
Art. 60Place Where Information is to be Furnished
Art. 61Time Within Which Information is to be Furnished
Art. 62Possibility of Declarations at Intervening Times
Art. 63Drawing Up of Records by Civil Status Officer
Art. 64Late Declarations
Art. 65Consuls
Art. 66Commanding Officers of Ships
Art. 67Judgments
Art. 68Acknowledgment of a Child
Art. 69Change of Name
Art. 70Divorce
Art. 71Keeping of Registers
Art. 72Supply of Registers
Art. 73Prohibition on Removal of Registers
Art. 74Compulsory Indications. - 1. Registers of Communes
Art. 752. Other Registers
Art. 76Form of Registers
Art. 77Duplicate Registers
Art. 78Storage of the Registers
Art. 79Storage of Duplicate Registers
Art. 80Notice
Art. 81No Unutilized Leaves
Art. 82Leaf Unutilized by Mistake
Art. 83Index
Art. 84Destruction of Register or Duplicate Registers
Art. 85Destruction of Register and Duplicates
Art. 86Control of the Keeping of Registers
Art. 87Particulars to be Mentioned
Art. 88Particulars Which May Not be Mentioned
Art. 89Unknown or Uncertain Information
Art. 90No Abbreviations
Art. 91No Erasures or Words Written Over Others
Art. 92Signature
Art. 93Leaves Not Utilized
Art. 94Probative Force of Records
Art. 95Records Not Entered in Registers
Art. 96Particulars of Record
Art. 97Declaration of Birth
Art. 98Foundlings
Art. 99Particulars of Records of Death
Art. 100When Record Required
Art. 101Persons Obligated to Declare Death
Art. 102Death in Another Person’s House
Art. 103Hospitals, Schools, Hotels and Prisons
Art. 104Soldiers on Active Service
Art. 105Finding of Corpse
Art. 106Corpse Not Found. - 1. Judgment Declaring Death
Art. 1072. Court Having Jurisdiction
Art. 108Disasters. - I. Collective Judgment
Art. 1092. Individual Extracts
Art. 110Date of Death
Art. 111Annulment of Judgment Declaring Death
Art. 112Particulars of Records of Marriage
Art. 113When Record Required
Art. 114Duty to Declare Marriage
Art. 115Drawing up Ex Officio of Record
Art. 116Principle
Art. 117Application for Correction
Art. 118Clerical Mistakes
Art. 119Other Cases
Art. 120Manner in Which the Record is Corrected
Art. 121Drawing Up of New Record
Art. 122Authority of Judicial Decision
Art. 123Record of Birth
Art. 124Record of Death
Art. 125Records of Marriage
Art. 126Depositaries of Duplicates
Art. 127Corrected Records
Art. 128Form and Cost
Art. 129Probative Force
Art. 130Verification
Art. 131Civil Liability of Officials
Art. 132Refusal to Draw up Record
Art. 133Liability of Witnesses and Declarants
Art. 134Principle
Art. 135Authorization
Art. 136Who Draws up the Act
Art. 137Particulars of the Act
Art. 138Report Annexed Thereto
Art. 139Probative Value
Art. 140Liability of Witnesses

Civil Code · English · 2015

Article 90

No Abbreviations

The particulars required in the record shall be written clearly and without any abbreviation.

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This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur.

Source title: Civil Code of the State of Eritrea
Edition: 2015
Issuing body: Ministry of Justice, State of Eritrea
Repository: FAOLEX
Language: English
Source pages: 42

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