Chapter II: Provisions specific to certain properties

When the seizure is carried out in the hands of an establishment authorised by law to keep deposit accounts, the latter is required to declare the balance of the debtor’s account(s) on the day of the seizure. Within a period of fifteen working days following the seizure, during which the sums left in the account are unavailable, this balance may be allocated to the benefit or detriment of the distrainor…

The garnishee shall leave at the disposal of the individual debtor, within the limit of the credit balance of the account(s) on the day of the seizure, a maintenance sum equal to the lump sum, for a single recipient, mentioned in Article L. 262-2 of the Code de l’action sociale et des familles. Where the debtor is an individual entrepreneur with limited liability, the first paragraph applies only to the…