The application shall be brought, as the case may be, before the protection litigation judge or the president of the judicial court or the commercial court, within the limits of the jurisdiction of these courts.
The territorially competent judge shall be that of the place where the debtor or one of the debtors being sued resides.
The rules prescribed in the preceding paragraphs are of public policy. Any clause to the contrary is deemed unwritten. The court must declare of its own motion that it lacks jurisdiction, in which case article 847-5 applies.