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

¹ Where the per­son suf­fer­ing dam­age con­sen­ted to the harm­ful act or cir­cum­stances at­trib­ut­able to him helped give rise to or com­pound the dam­age or oth­er­wise ex­acer­bated the po­s­i­tion of the party li­able for it, the court may re­duce the com­pens­a­tion due or even dis­pense with it en­tirely.

² The court may also re­duce the com­pens­a­tion award in cases in which the dam­age was caused neither wil­fully nor by gross neg­li­gence and where pay­ment of such com­pens­a­tion would leave the li­able party in fin­an­cial hard­ship.