Article 227
in forceOf cheques, and of promissory notes and receipts to bearer · Of copies and missing cheques
The payment made on one of the copies discharges, even if it were not stipulated that such payment annuls the force of the other copies.
The endorser, who has transferred the parts to different persons, as well as the subsequent endorsers, are liable on all parts which bear their signature and which have not been surrendered.
De betaling op één der exemplaren gedaan, bevrijdt, ook al ware niet bedongen, dat die betaling de kracht der andere exemplaren te niet doet.
De endossant, die de exemplaren aan verschillende personen heeft overgedragen, alsook de latere endossanten, zijn verbonden wegens alle exemplaren, die hunne handteekening dragen en die niet zijn uitgeleverd.