Chapter Fourth: Correction and Interpretation of Judgments

Article 560

1. The court shall correct any material errors in its judgment, whether clerical or arithmetic, by a decision issued ex officio or upon request after summoning the parties and hearing them, unless the judgment is subject to one of the ordinary means of appeal. 2. A request to correct material errors is not subject to any fee. 3. The court clerk shall record the correction on the original copy of the judgment, and it shall be signed by him and the president of the court, and registered in the margin of the judgment in the record, and the previously delivered copy shall be destroyed after its return. 4. The decision issued to correct the judgment shall be notified like the judgment itself.

Article 561

An appeal may be made in the judgment rendered on correction if the court exceeded the limits provided in the first paragraph of the previous article, and this by the means of appeal admissible in the judgment subject to correction. As for the judgment rejecting the correction, no appeal may be made against it.

Article 562

1. The parties may request the court that issued the judgment to interpret any ambiguity or obscurity contained therein, provided that the judgment has not been appealed through any of the appeal channels. 2. The request shall be submitted in accordance with the established principles for instituting a lawsuit. 3. The judgment issued by way of interpretation shall be deemed a complement to the judgment being interpreted in all respects, and the rules governing appeal channels applicable to the latter judgment shall apply to the former.

Article 563

If the court overlooks the ruling on some of the substantive claims, it is permissible for the party to bring a new lawsuit for them if they did not appeal the judgment.

Article 564

Evidence of the executory character of a judgment shall be derived from its content when it is not susceptible to any appeal suspending execution or is accompanied by expedited execution.