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Article L110-1 of the French Commercial code

The law deems acts of commerce:

1° Any purchase of movable property for the purpose of reselling it, either in kind or after having worked on it and put it to use;

2° Any purchase of immovable property for the purpose of reselling it, unless the purchaser has acted with a view to erecting one or more buildings and selling them en bloc or by premises ;

3° All intermediary transactions for the purchase, subscription or sale of real estate, business assets, shares or units in real estate companies;

4° All furniture rental businesses;

5° All manufacturing, commission, land or water transport businesses;

6° Any supply, agency, business office, auction house or public show business;

7° Any foreign exchange, banking, brokerage, electronic money issuing and management business and any payment service;

8° All public banking operations;

9° All obligations between traders, merchants and bankers;

10° Between all persons, bills of exchange;

11° Between all persons, guarantees of commercial debts.

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Article L110-1

La loi répute actes de commerce :

1° Tout achat de biens meubles pour les revendre, soit en nature, soit après les avoir travaillés et mis en oeuvre ;

2° Tout achat de biens immeubles aux fins de les revendre, à moins que l’acquéreur n’ait agi en vue d’édifier un ou plusieurs bâtiments et de les vendre en bloc ou par locaux ;

3° Toutes opérations d’intermédiaire pour l’achat, la souscription ou la vente d’immeubles, de fonds de commerce, d’actions ou parts de sociétés immobilières ;

4° Toute entreprise de location de meubles ;

5° Toute entreprise de manufactures, de commission, de transport par terre ou par eau ;

6° Toute entreprise de fournitures, d’agence, bureaux d’affaires, établissements de ventes à l’encan, de spectacles publics ;

7° Toute opération de change, banque, courtage, activité d’émission et de gestion de monnaie électronique et tout service de paiement ;

8° Toutes les opérations de banques publiques ;

9° Toutes obligations entre négociants, marchands et banquiers ;

10° Entre toutes personnes, les lettres de change ;

11° Entre toutes personnes, les cautionnements de dettes commerciales.

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