503. Within thirty days of the filing of the inscription or of the judgment rendered on a demand made under article 501, the appellant must serve on the respondent two copies of a statement.
If the parties agree on the content of the statement, they sign it and the appellant files seven copies of it in the office of the court. If not, the appellant files seven copies of the statement in the office of the court, and the respondent files seven copies of his comments, after serving two copies of them on the appellant. In all cases, these documents must be filed within thirty days of the service made under the first paragraph.
The appellant must file with the statement the judgment appealed from and, where that is the case, the notes filed by the judge or the transcription or the translation of the reasons of the judgment if they were given orally.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 80, a. 503; 1979, c. 37, s. 21.