The French commercial code * * * four parts, article 648th. The first part of the general rules is divided into nine chapters, including: merchants, commercial account books, companies, commercial exchanges and ticket brokers, bank discipline, transactions, bills of exchange, promissory notes and prescription; The second chapter is maritime business, which is divided into fourteen chapters, including: ships, ship mortgages, shipowners, captains, seafarers, ship service contracts, bills of lading, chartering contracts, ship mortgage loans, marine insurance, average, abandonment, prescription and refusal to sue; The third part is bankruptcy, which is divided into three chapters, including: decentralization of family assets, bankruptcy and restoration of rights; The fourth part, commercial court, stipulates the establishment, jurisdiction, litigation mode and arbitration procedure of commercial court.
The French Commercial Code is the first commercial code in the world, which marks the formation of modern commercial law and has epoch-making significance. It adopts the legislative principle of objectivism (commercial behaviorism), constructs the code based on commercial behavior, breaks through the tradition that commercial law only applies to businessmen since the Middle Ages, and embodies the concept of equality and freedom since the Great Revolution, thus expanding commercial law into commercial behavior law. At the same time, the promulgation of the French Commercial Code set a legislative precedent for the separation of civil and commercial affairs in the civil law system. Of course, this code also has some shortcomings. For example, the Code includes the content of procedural law, and the norms for land merchants are weaker than those for maritime merchants, and there are too few norms for joint stock limited companies (only 13).
In addition to the commercial code, there are some special commercial laws in France, such as 1867 commercial company law, 1885 futures trading law, 19 17 workers' participation in joint-stock companies law and19 law.
The French Commercial Code has been implemented for nearly 200 years, and it is still applicable after many revisions and supplements. Later, under the influence of this code, all countries, especially European countries, have formulated their own commercial codes.