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.