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Article L511-72 of the French Commercial code

The bill of exchange may be drawn in several identical copies.

These copies must be numbered in the text of the document itself; otherwise, each of them is considered to be a separate bill of exchange.

Any bearer of a bill which does not indicate that it has been drawn in a single copy may demand, at his own expense, the issue of several copies. To this end, he must apply to his immediate endorser who is obliged to lend him his care to act against his own endorser and so on back to the drawer. The endorsers are required to reproduce the endorsements on the new copies.

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Article L511-72

La lettre de change peut être tirée en plusieurs exemplaires identiques.

Ces exemplaires doivent être numérotés dans le texte même du titre ; faute de quoi, chacun d’eux est considéré comme une lettre de change distincte.

Tout porteur d’une lettre n’indiquant pas qu’elle a été tirée en un exemplaire unique peut exiger à ses frais la délivrance de plusieurs exemplaires. A cet effet, il doit s’adresser à son endosseur immédiat qui est tenu de lui prêter ses soins pour agir contre son propre endosseur et ainsi de suite en remontant jusqu’au tireur. Les endosseurs sont tenus de reproduire les endossements sur les nouveaux exemplaires.

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