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

¹ Where in a sale of live­stock a writ­ten as­sur­ance in­cludes no time lim­it and does not war­rant that an an­im­al is preg­nant, the seller is not li­able to the buy­er un­less a de­fect is dis­covered and no­ti­fied with­in nine days of de­liv­ery or of the no­tice of de­fault in tak­ing de­liv­ery and an ap­plic­a­tion is made to the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity with­in the same time lim­it to have the an­im­al ex­amined by ex­perts.

² The court eval­u­ates the ex­perts’ re­port at its dis­cre­tion.

³ In oth­er re­spects the pro­ced­ure is gov­erned by reg­u­la­tions en­acted by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil.