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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Transmission

Article L131-24

When a person has been dispossessed of a promissory cheque by any event whatsoever, the beneficiary who proves his right in the manner indicated in article L. 131-22 is only obliged to dispose of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Transmission

Article L131-25

…r or with previous bearers, unless the bearer, in acquiring the cheque, has acted knowingly to the detriment of the debtor.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Presentation and payment

Article L131-39

…on of the various foreign currencies in which cheques are denominated must be followed in order to determine the value of these currencies in French currency. However, the drawer may stipulate that th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Crossed cheques

Article L131-46

Cheques issued abroad and payable in France are treated as crossed cheques.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Payment incidents and penalties

Article L131-70

Any banker who issues his creditor with blank cheque forms, payable at his cash desk, must, on pain of a fine of 7.5 euros per offence, mention on each form the name of the person to whom the form is…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Payment incidents and penalties

Article L131-73

…cheque on the grounds of insufficient funds. The drawee banker must instruct the account holder to return to all the bankers of which he is a client the cheque forms in his possession or in the posses…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Payment incidents and penalties

Article L131-85

The Banque de France shall inform the institutions and persons on which cheques may be drawn, finance companies, the organisations mentioned in Article L. 511-6, electronic money institutions, payment…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 12: Payment incidents and penalties

Article L131-86

The Banque de France shall provide information to any person who, on receiving a cheque for the payment of a good or service, wishes to check that the cheque was properly issued in accordance with thi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Indexation

Article L112-3

…es defined by decree, the following may be indexed to the general price level:1° (Repealed) ;2° Livret A passbook accounts as defined in article L. 221-1 ; 3° Popular savings passbook accounts defined…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Charges or reductions for the use of a given payment instrument

Article L112-11

Payment service providers may not contractually restrict the possibility for a payee to apply charges, offer a discount to the payer or otherwise direct the payer to use a particular payment instrumen…

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