BOOK VI: Company difficulties.

The juge-commissaire may, ex officio or at the request of the liquidator or a creditor, order provisional payment of a share of a claim that has been definitively admitted. This provisional payment may be subject to the presentation by its beneficiary of a guarantee from a credit institution or finance company. In the event that the request for a provisional payment relates to a preferential claim of the financial authorities,…

If one or more distributions of sums precede the distribution of the price of the immovables, the preferential and mortgage creditors admitted shall contribute to the distributions in proportion to their total claims. After the sale of the immovables and the final settlement of the order between the mortgage creditors and preferential creditors, those of them who rank in good standing on the price of the immovables for the totality…

The rights of mortgage creditors who are partially collocated on the distribution of the price of the properties are settled on the basis of the amount remaining due to them after the property collocation. The excess of dividends they have received in previous distributions over the dividend calculated after collocation is withheld from the amount of their mortgage collocation and is included in the sums to be distributed to unsecured…

Preferential or hypothecary creditors, not satisfied on the price of the immovables, compete with unsecured creditors for what remains due to them.

Subject to the second paragraph of Article L. 642-20-1, the provisions of Articles L. 643-4 to L. 643-6 apply to creditors benefiting from a special movable security.