The Judicial System of France.

francs, we find that there are some four hundred and five courts sitting regularly and forming the actual judicial body. The nura-

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dent, whose post is a high one. Besides these sixty-one regular judges, there are a number of substitutes, who await their turn

PRESIDENT OF COURT OF APPEAL.

ber of judges employed is as follows : — a few provincial tribunals have only three; others have five, and some still more, distrib uted among several courts. Thus, at Paris there are forty-eight judges, composing nine courts, twelve vice-presidents and one presi-

to become full judges. The inquiring judges (juges <Tinstruction) are twenty-two in num ber. This completes the list of judges. They have as a part of their courts the public prosecutor, and thirty-nine deputies. At