French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 3: Notaries
Article R444-64
No fee is payable for the deed, copy or extract declared invalid or useless through the fault of the notary.
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No fee is payable for the deed, copy or extract declared invalid or useless through the fault of the notary.
When, pursuant to Article R. 444-15, the lawyer exercises his right to withhold documents that he has drawn up, documents that have been given to him to support the case or securities that he has obta…
Notaries are prohibited, on pain of disciplinary sanctions, from sharing the price or the regulated tariff of their services with a third party or from accepting that a third party remit to them all o…
The emoluments for notarial services governed by this title determine the sums due to notaries, when they assist diplomatic and consular agents in the exercise by the latter of their notarial powers.
Lawyers may not charge any receipts or accounting fees for the collection or safekeeping of funds handled as a result of proceedings initiated by them.
Lawyers are prohibited, under penalty of disciplinary sanctions, from sharing their emoluments with a third party.
The provisions of this Title, with the exception of those of paragraph 1 of sub-section 1 of section 2, shall apply to judicial officers in the departments of Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle. Table 3-…
The notary may waive all emoluments relating to a specific deed or to the various deeds received in connection with the same matter.
Prior to signing the deeds for which they are responsible, notaries require a deposit sufficient to cover the corresponding fee and, where applicable, costs and disbursements.
Notaries may not collect any revenue duty for the collection or custody of capital and securities deposited for the direct execution of a deed of sale or loan executed in their office. Notaries must,…
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