Federal Act on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code

¹Where the parties agree to make a con­tract sub­ject to form­al re­quire­ments not pre­scribed by law, it is pre­sumed that the parties do not wish to as­sume ob­lig­a­tions un­til such time as those re­quire­ments are sat­is­fied.

²Where the parties stip­u­late a writ­ten form without elab­or­at­ing fur­ther, the pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing the writ­ten form as re­quired by law ap­ply to sat­is­fac­tion of that re­quire­ment.