Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹ Con­tracts of suc­ces­sion are gov­erned by the law of the state in which the dis­pos­ing party is dom­i­ciled at the time of their con­clu­sion.

² If a dis­pos­ing party sub­mits, in the con­tract, their en­tire es­tate to the law of the state of which they are a cit­izen, such law ap­plies in lieu of the law of the dom­i­cile.

³ Re­cip­roc­al dis­pos­i­tions upon death are val­id if they are con­sist­ent with the law of the dom­i­cile of each dis­pos­ing party or with the law of the coun­try of com­mon cit­izen­ship chosen by them.

⁴ The pro­vi­sions of this Act re­gard­ing form re­quire­ments and test­a­ment­ary ca­pa­city (Art. 93 and 94) are re­served.