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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 9: Alteration

Article L131-58

If the text of the cheque is altered, signatories subsequent to the alteration are bound by the terms of the altered text; earlier signatories are bound by the terms of the original text.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Scope and definitions

Article L133-1-1

…If the payer's payment service provider is located in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon or Saint-Barthélemy and the payee's payment service provider is located outside France, regardless of the currency used…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Relationship between the payment service provider and the payment service user

Article L133-15

I. - The payment service provider issuing a payment instrument must ensure that personalised security data as defined in Article L. 133-4 is not accessible to persons other than the Payment Service Us…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Relationship between the payment service provider and the payment service user

Article L133-17

…nt card issued by a credit institution, an institution or a service referred to in Article L. 518-1 and enabling the cardholder to withdraw or transfer funds, the payment may be blocked in the event o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Indexation

Article L112-2

…t property.Any clause providing, for activities other than those referred to in the first paragraph and for activities carried out by the liberal professions, for indexation to the variation in the qu…

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

Article L131-40

…cheque cannot represent the second, third, fourth, etc., he may request payment of the lost cheque and obtain it by order of the judge by proving his ownership by his books and by giving security. In…

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

Article L131-41

…of the presentation period. The notices prescribed by article L. 131-49 must be given to the drawer and endorsers within the time limits set by that article.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Crossed cheques

Article L131-45

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…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 11: Protest

Article L131-62

The protest deed contains a literal transcription of the cheque and endorsements, as well as a summons to pay the amount of the cheque. It states the presence or absence of the person required to pay,…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Execution time for payment transactions and value dates

Article L133-14

…after his own account has been credited, including for payment transactions taking place within one and the same payment service provider, where :a) there is no conversion; orb) there is a conversion…

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