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| | Cour de cassation at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The court, which is a large, almost legislative body in style, has the sole power of confirming or overturning lower appeal court decisions - it is said to "quash" (casser) them, thus an overturning is called a "quashing" (cassation). |
| | Furthermore, it judges matters according to points of procedure ("Did the lower courts follow the correct procedure?") and law ("Did they interpret law correctly?"), not on points of fact (the Courts of Appeal do judge on fact as well as law; basically they retry cases). |
| | Unlike the case law decisions of common law courts, the Cour de cassation can only confirm the earlier decision, (rejet du pourvoi, dismissal of the appeal) or annull it ("cassation"). |
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