Recours pour excès de pouvoir (France)

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The Recours pour excès de pouvoir describes a form of legal protection in French administrative law (recours contentieux). The historical legal basis is the law of October 7th and 14th, 1790. It is defined as "the lawsuit with which anyone who has an interest can seek the annulment of an enforceable decision by the administrative judge because of its illegality." It differs through its aim of action of recours en indemnité , in which instead of annulment of the administrative act, compensation is sought. Are to be distinguished

  1. the admissibility (recevabilité),
  2. the sources of error (cas d'ouverture) and
  3. the judgment effects.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georges Vedel; Pierre Delvolvé: Droit administratif . 12th edition. tape II . Presses Univ. de France, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-13-045065-2 . Translation: Ulrich Huebner and Vlad Constantinesco: Introduction to French Law . 4th edition. CH Beck, Munich 2001.