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

¹ If the goods are lost or des­troyed, the car­ri­er must com­pensate their full value un­less he can prove that the loss or de­struc­tion res­ul­ted from the nature of the goods or through the fault of the con­signor or the con­sign­ee or oc­curred as a res­ult of in­struc­tions giv­en by either or of cir­cum­stances which could not have been pre­ven­ted even by the di­li­gence of a prudent car­ri­er.

² The con­signor is deemed to be at fault if he fails to in­form the car­ri­er of any es­pe­cially valu­able freight goods.

³ Agree­ments stip­u­lat­ing an in­terest in ex­cess of the full value of the goods or an amount of com­pens­a­tion lower than their full value are re­served.