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Article L123-23 of the French Commercial code

Regularly kept accounting records may be admitted in court as evidence between traders of commercial transactions.

If they have been irregularly kept, they may not be invoked by the author for his own benefit.

Disclosure of accounting records may only be ordered in court in matters of succession, community, company division and in the event of receivership or liquidation.

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Article L123-23

La comptabilité régulièrement tenue peut être admise en justice pour faire preuve entre commerçants pour faits de commerce.

Si elle a été irrégulièrement tenue, elle ne peut être invoquée par son auteur à son profit.

La communication des documents comptables ne peut être ordonnée en justice que dans les affaires de succession, communauté, partage de société et en cas de redressement ou de liquidation judiciaires.

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