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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: The form of bailiff's documents.

Article 648

…ccupation, domicile, nationality, date and place of birth;b) If the claimant is a legal person: its form, name, registered office and the body that legally represents it.3. The full name, address and…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: The form of bailiff's documents.

Article 650

The costs relating to unnecessary acts shall be borne by the judicial officers who performed them, without prejudice to any damages that may be claimed. The same applies to costs relating to documents…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Creation and form of cheque

Article L131-9

Cheques may be made payable at the domicile of a third party either in the locality where the drawee is domiciled or in another locality, provided that the third party is a bank or a postal cheque cen…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Creation and form of cheque

Article L131-5

The cheque cannot be accepted. A statement of acceptance on the cheque is deemed to be unwritten. However, the drawee may endorse the cheque; endorsement has the effect of establishing the existence o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Creation and form of cheque

Article L131-4

…en if the protest was made after the time limits set.Instruments drawn and payable in France in the form of cheques on any person other than those mentioned in the first paragraph of this article are…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Creation and form of cheque

Article L131-6

Cheques may be made payable :- to a named person, with or without an express "to order" clause ;- to a named person, with the clause "not to order" or an equivalent clause;- to bearer.A cheque payable…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Creation and form of cheque

Article L131-7

Cheques may be made payable to the drawer. Cheques may be drawn on behalf of a third party. Cheques may not be drawn on the drawer himself, except in the case of a cheque drawn between different estab…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Creation and form of cheque

Article L131-10

A cheque written in both words and figures is only valid for the amount written in words in the event of a difference. Where a cheque is written more than once, either in words or in figures, the diff…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Creation and form of cheque

Article L131-12

A person who signs a cheque as the representative of a person for whom he had no authority to act is himself obligated under the cheque and, if he has paid, has the same rights as the purported princi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Creation and form of cheque

Article L131-11

If the cheque bears the signatures of persons incapable of binding themselves by cheque, or forged signatures, or signatures of fictitious persons, or signatures which for any other reason cannot bind…

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