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Structural division: BOOK VI › CHAPTER 1
Article 389 — When detention may be ordered
Civil Procedure Code (English)
Article text
(1) Where, after the examination held under Art. 386
(a) the judgment-debtor refuses without good cause to comply 128 CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE with the decree; or
(b) the court is satisfied that the judgment-debtor, although able to comply with the decree, has wilfully failed to do so, the caurt may order the arrest of the judgment-debtor, if he is not already under arrest, and his detention in the civil prison for a period nat exceeding six manths. (Z)The provisions of Art. 388
(2) shall apply when detention is or- dered under sub-art.
(1) of this Artide.