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

The fol­low­ing pre­scribe after five years:

1.

claims for ag­ri­cul­tur­al and com­mer­cial rent and oth­er rent, in­terest on cap­it­al and all oth­er peri­od­ic pay­ments;

2.

claims in con­nec­tion with de­liv­ery of food­stuffs, pay­ments for board and lodging and hotel ex­penses;

3.⁴⁷

claims in con­nec­tion with work car­ried out by trades­men and crafts­men, pur­chases of re­tail goods, med­ic­al treat­ment, pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices provided by ad­voc­ates, so­li­cit­ors, leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ives and not­ar­ies, and work per­formed by em­ploy­ees for their em­ploy­ers.