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Showing 181–190 of 44147 articles for “Art. L 131-5”
Unless otherwise agreed, the endorser guarantees payment. The endorser may prohibit further endorsement; in this case, the endorser is not liable to any person to whom the cheque is subsequently endor…
Disputes relating to the cheque-writing ban are referred to the civil courts.Legal action before the civil court has no suspensive effect. However, the court seised may, even in summary proceedings, o…
The holder of an endorseable cheque is deemed to be a rightful bearer if he proves his right by an uninterrupted series of endorsements, even if the last endorsement is blank. Crossed-out endorsements…
An endorsement on a bearer cheque makes the endorser liable under the provisions governing recourse; moreover, it does not convert the instrument into a promissory cheque.
…he drawer and the other debtors, if the cheque, presented in due time, is not paid and if the refusal to pay is recorded in an authentic instrument called a protest.
Cheques may only be drawn on a credit institution, an investment services provider other than a portfolio management company, the French Treasury, the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations or the Banque…
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…
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…
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…
…on 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 principal wo…
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