Land Trade Code

Type

Decree-Law

Number

304

Date of the text

24/12/1942

Official Gazette

published in 1943

Status today

Repealed in part as of 27/08/2026

Articles

716

What it provides

This law sets out which commercial acts in land trade are commercial whoever performs them, and rules for persons who make trade their profession. It also establishes the order of sources when no statutory text applies, including general law, custom and equity, and lists the commercial activities such as buying goods f

What has changed this text

• Amended by Unspecified act No. 54/1977, articles 78, 80, 103, 124, 153, 201, 234, 240
• Amended by Unspecified act No. 126/2019, articles 121 bis 1, 121 bis 2, 121 bis 3, 121 bis 4, 121 bis 5, 121 bis 6, 121 bis 7, 121 bis 8, 121 bis 9, 121 bis 10, 121 bis 11, 121 bis 12
• Amended by Decree No. 9800/1968 of 04/05/1968, articles 16
• Amended by Decree No. 9798/1968 of 04/05/1968, articles 34, 37, 38, 59, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 90, 91
• Amended by Law No. 380/1994 of 04/11/1994
• Partly repealed by Law No. 380/1994 of 04/11/1994, articles 12, 13
• Amended by Law No. 120/1992 of 09/03/1992
• Partly repealed by Law No. 120/1992 of 09/03/1992, articles 83, 84, 7
• Amended by Decree No. 14028/1970 of 16/03/1970, articles 147
• Amended by Law No. 30/1967 of 16/05/1967, articles 40, 41, 428, 446, 447, 448
• Amended by Law No. 47/2015 of 24/11/2015, articles 26
• Amended by Law No. 126/2019 of 29/03/2019, articles 16, 18, 26, 27, 42, 43, 45, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82
• Partly repealed by Law No. 126/2019 of 29/03/2019

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1943. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.