Federal Act
on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code
(Part Five: The Code of Obligations)

¹ A buy­er who com­plains that an ob­ject sent from an­oth­er place is de­fect­ive is ob­liged to place it in tem­por­ary stor­age, provided the seller has no rep­res­ent­at­ive in the place in which it was re­ceived, and can­not simply re­turn it to the seller.

² The buy­er is ob­liged to have the con­di­tion of the ob­ject duly and promptly wit­nessed, fail­ing which he will bear the bur­den of prov­ing that the al­leged de­fects already ex­is­ted when he took re­ceipt of the ob­ject.

³ Where there is a risk that the ob­ject will rap­idly de­teri­or­ate, the buy­er has the right and, should the in­terests of the seller so re­quire, the ob­lig­a­tion to ar­range its sale with the as­sist­ance of the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity of the place where the ob­ject is loc­ated, but must no­ti­fy the seller of such sale as soon as pos­sible to avoid ren­der­ing him­self li­able in dam­ages.