Spanish Commercial Code - Book I - Of Merchants and Agents Trade - Title I - The Rating of the Merchants and the Trade Register

CODE OF COMMERCE OF SPAIN

BOOK I

MERCHANT AND TRADE AGENTS

Title I

THE RATING OF THE MERCHANTS AND THE TRADE REGISTER

§ 1. Qualification of traders

Article 7. º traders are those who, having capacity to contract, they trade their usual occupation.

Article 8. No trader who is not accidentally executed an act of commerce, but is subject to trade laws as to the effects of the act.

Article 9. º Repealed.

Article 10. When the children of family and children who manage their own money professional under the authorization conferred on them by sections 246 and 439 of the Civil Code perpetrate an act of commerce, are bound to the extent of his own money and subject to the trade laws.

Article 11. The wife trader governed by the provisions in Article 150 of the Civil Code.

Article 12. Repealed.

Article 13. Repealed.

Article 14. The wife will not be considered as a trader if you do not trade separately from her husband.

Article 15. Repealed.

Article 16. Divorcee and separate assets can be traded prior to registration and publication of the divorce decree and separation or marriage contracts, where appropriate, and subject also, if they are under eighteen years, the rules concerning children in care.

Article 17. Repealed.

Article 18. The lower merchant can stand trial alone on all matters relating to trade.

Article 19. Every contract by persons who are prohibited by law from engaging in business, do not produce action against the contractor can, but give this right to sue his election invalid or enforcement of them, unless proves that he has acted in bad faith.

§ 2. Commercial Registry

Article 20. At the head of each department will keep a register in which all documents recorded under this Code should be subject to registration.

Article 21. The rules and formalities relating to registration of the trade organization, the duties and functions of the clerk in charge of it and the form and solemnity of registration, shall be determined by special regulations.