France: Fraudulent Misuse of a Document Signed in Blank

Abstract

The disappearance of the offence of fraudulently misusing a document signed in blank (abus de blanc‐seing) in the new penal code has raised the question of the statutory basis of prosecutions that were based on the former s. 407 of the criminal code. (This read: ‘Whoever, misusing a document signed in blank, fraudulently writes on it an obligation or discharge, or any other matter that may compromise the person or financial standing of the signatory, shall be subject to the penalties stated in section 405. In the event that the document signed in blank shall not have been delivered to him, he shall be prosecuted as a forger and punished as such.’)

Citation

Peacock, D. (1997), "France: Fraudulent Misuse of a Document Signed in Blank", Journal of Financial Crime, Vol. 4 No. 4, pp. 359-360. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb025806