{"id":33850,"date":"2025-12-23T18:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/commercial-lease-a-15-day-resolutory-clause-is-deemed-unwritten\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T09:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:05:44","slug":"commercial-lease-a-15-day-resolutory-clause-is-deemed-unwritten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/commercial-lease-a-15-day-resolutory-clause-is-deemed-unwritten\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial lease: A 15-day resolutory clause is deemed unwritten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/juri\/id\/JURITEXT000052555637\" rel=\"noopener\">Cass. 3e civ., Nov. 6, 2025, no. 23-21.334 FS-B, SARL Vitton c\/ L. ; no. 23-21.454 FS-B, SCI San Marco<br\/>c\/ B.<\/a><\/strong><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In two rulings dated November 6, 2025, the Cour de cassation confirms the rigorous application of<br\/>provisions stemming from the Pinel law of June 18, 2014 with regard to resolutory clauses inserted in a<br\/>commercial lease.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/>The Court ruled that a clause providing for a 15-day period before automatic termination<br\/>is acquired must be deemed unwritten in its entirety. As the clause is deemed unwritten,<br\/>it is legally deemed never to have existed, so that no termination by operation of law<br\/>can be based on it. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Legal analysis<\/h2>\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Reminder of the legal framework<br\/><\/strong>According to article L. 145-41 of the French Commercial Code, any resolutory clause included in a<br\/>commercial lease can only take effect one month after an unsuccessful summons to pay.<br\/>This provision also requires, on pain of nullity, that the summons expressly mentions<br\/>this time limit.<br\/>Article L. 145-15, as amended by the Pinel law, stipulates that any stipulation having the<br\/>effect of thwarting these rules is deemed unwritten. Thus, the sanction has been tightened by the law of<br\/>2014: what previously came under the heading of nullity now comes under the heading of absolute unenforceability. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scope of the November 6, 2025 ruling<br\/><\/strong>The French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation) has ruled that a resolutory clause providing for a 15-day period &#8211; shorter than the<br\/>legal time limit &#8211; must be set aside in its entirety, even if the summons as such,<br\/>complied with the one-month time limit. Indeed, the judge does not have the power to rewrite the clause or to &#8220;<br\/>regularize&#8221; it in part: the sanction of article L. 145-15 applies to the clause in its entirety. <br\/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Practical implications<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This solution invites lessors to carefully check the resolutory clauses included in<br\/>their leases, particularly those concluded before 2014 but still in force. Any clause that does not<br\/>comply with the requirements of article L. 145-41 should be deemed not to have been<br\/>written, with no possibility of judicial adaptation. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/>It should also be pointed out that the starting point for the statute of limitations on an action for unwritten<br\/>reputation remains debated, but the Court has made it clear, in previous decisions, that this action<br\/>was not subject to the statute of limitations, even if it had been acquired before the<br\/>Loi Pinel came into force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cass. 3e civ., Nov. 6, 2025, no. 23-21.334 FS-B, SARL Vitton c\/ L. ; no.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}