A party claiming damages who does not reside in the seat of the tribunal where the investigation is being held shall be required to elect domicile by declaration during the investigation or through any other means. In the absence of election of domicile, the party may not contest the lack of service regarding documents which should have been served to him/her under the law. ART 63 : In any case, a party claiming who has not obtained legal aid shall be oblig ed, on pain of inadmissibility of his/her complaint, to deposit at the registry the sum deemed necessary for the costs of the proceedings whenever, before the investigating judge or trial judge, his/her action is not attached to the preliminary action of the Public Prosecutor. In the event of a direct summons before the court or in the case of an appeal, the court seized shall fix the amount of the deposit at the first hearing of the case. An additional deposit may be required during the proceedings, eith er during investigation or before the trial court, as soon as the balance appears insufficient to cover all costs, including the registration of the judgement. For the keeping the said deposit, the court registrar shall not require payment of any remuneration lest he/she be accused with misappropriation of public funds. The balance of the sums deposited, which are unclaimed six months after the court seized has ruled on the merits, shall be deposited in the public treasury. ART 64: Where, after a criminal investigation has been opened following the initiation of proceedings to claim damages or following a direct summons initiated by the party claiming damages before the misdemeanour court, a ruling to dismiss a case or discharge an accused is pas sed, the person charged or the defendant, or any other person targeted by the complaint or the direct summons, without prejudice to prosecution for malicious denunciation, may, if they do not initiate civil proceedings, seek damages from the complainant, as set out below: - ' the action for damages must be lodged within three months of the date on which the ruling to dismiss the case or discharge the accused became final. It shall be brought by means of summons before the misdemeanours court where the case was investigated or tried. The ruling to dismiss the case or discharge the accused shall be referred to the court so that it should be made known to the parties. The proceedings shall be held in open court, and the parties or their counsel as well as the Public Prosecutor shall be heard; - in case of conviction, the court may order the publication in full or of an extract of its judgement in one or more newspapers that it shall designate, at the expense of the convicted person ; - Objection, if any, and appeal, shall be admissible within the time limits of ordinary law regarding misdemeanours; - the appeal shall be lodged before the Appeals Chamber for Misdemeanours following the same procedures as before the court of first instance; - the judgement of the Court of Appeal may be referred to the Supreme Court as in criminal matters. PART IIIINVESTIGATIONS CHAPTER I - FLAGRANT FELONIES AND MISDEMEANOURS ART 65: A flagrant felony or misdemeanour shall refer to a felony or misdemeanour in the course of being committed, or which has just been committed. A felony or misdemeanour shall also be flagrant where, immediately after the act, the suspect is chased by hue an d cry, or is found in the possession of 13