Judgment Annulment Rejected: Perjury Insufficient Ground for Retrial

A litigant sought to annul a prior judgment based on the discovery of new documents, arguing these documents proved the other party had fabricated evidence and committed perjury, which would have changed the outcome of the original case. The Court of Cassation rejected the appeal, reasoning that the recourse of "révision" (retrial) is strictly limited by law to very specific grounds, and the discovery of evidence merely showing the opposing party's bad faith or perjury in the prior proceedings does not constitute a legally recognized ground for annulling a final judgment that has already attained the authority of *res judicata*.