What is “OTH”?

Full meaning & translation

The full form is Autres personnes morales dont l'immatriculation est prévue par l'article 1 de la loi modifiée du 19 décembre 2002 concernant le registre de commerce et des sociétés ainsi que la comptabilité et les comptes annuels des entreprises, a French-language term. It translates literally as “Other legal persons whose registration is provided by article 1 of the modified law of 19 December 2002 concerning the commercial and companies register.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as other legal person.

Where it's used

OTH appears in company names registered in the following jurisdiction:

What it tells you about the company

Equivalent forms around the world

These are the closest structural equivalents to OTH in other jurisdictions — same entity category, different national law.

Normalizing “OTH” in your data

When matching or deduplicating company records, the legal suffix is noise — “Acme OTH” and “Acme” should resolve to the same entity. One API call strips it and returns a stable canonical form:

curl -X POST https://api.ambect.com/v1/normalize/company \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AMBECT_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "Acme OTH", "country": "lu"}'

{
  "data": {
    "canonical": "acme oth",
    "legal_type": null,
    "tokens": [
      "acme",
      "oth"
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "pipeline": [
      "lowercase",
      "legal_suffix"
    ],
    "confidence": 0.99
  }
}

Frequently asked questions