Federal Act on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code

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Art. 30

2. Defin­i­tion of duress

 

1A party is un­der duress if, in the cir­cum­stances, he has good cause to be­lieve that there is im­min­ent and sub­stan­tial risk to his own life, limb, repu­ta­tion or prop­erty or to those of a per­son close to him.

2The fear that an­oth­er per­son might en­force a le­git­im­ate claim is taken in­to con­sid­er­a­tion only where the straitened cir­cum­stances of the party un­der duress have been ex­ploited in or­der to ex­tort ex­cess­ive be­ne­fits from him.

 
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