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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Cheques issued abroad and payable in France are treated as crossed cheques.
To obtain a second lost cheque, the owner of the cheque must contact the immediate endorser, who is required to lend his name and care to act towards his own endorser, going from endorser to endorser…
The bearer may exercise his rights of recourse against the endorsers, the 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 au…
…Treasury, the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations or the Banque de France, which has funds available to the drawer at the time the instrument is created and in accordance with an express or tacit agree…
…ticle. The cheque is crossed by means of two parallel bars on the front. It may be general or special. The bar is general if it does not bear any designation or the word "banker" or an equivalent term…
The bearer must give notice of non-payment to his endorser and to the drawer within four working days of the day of protest and, in the case of a no-fee return clause, on the day of presentation. Wher…
The protest must be made before the expiry of the time limit for presentation. If presentation takes place on the last day of the period, the protest may be drawn up on the next working day.
If a cheque is lost, the person to whom it belongs may pursue payment from a second, third, fourth, etc. cheque. If the person who lost the cheque cannot represent the second, third, fourth, etc., he…
A cheque with a general bar may only be paid by the drawee to a banker, an electronic money institution, a payment institution, a head of a postal cheque centre or a customer of the drawee. A speciall…
…eral Council, as well as the procedures for electing the Banque de France employees' representative to the General Council.
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