In the case of delivery of financial securities against payment of cash, failure to deliver or to settle on the date and in accordance with the conditions defined in the General Regulations of the Autorité des marchés financiers or, failing this, by an agreement between the parties, automatically discharges the non-defaulting party from all obligations towards the defaulting party, notwithstanding any legislative provision to the contrary.
When an intermediary referred to in Article L. 211-3 delivers securities or pays the price by taking the place of its defaulting customer, it acquires full ownership of the financial securities or cash received from the counterparty. The provisions of Book VI of the Commercial Code do not prevent the application of this article. No creditor of the defaulting customer may assert any right whatsoever over these financial securities or cash.