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

¹ The ware­house keep­er has the same ob­lig­a­tion to re­turn the goods as an or­din­ary bailee, ex­cept that he re­mains bound to ob­serve the con­trac­tu­al stor­age dur­a­tion even where an or­din­ary bailee would be en­titled to re­turn them soon­er ow­ing to un­fore­seen cir­cum­stances.

² Where a doc­u­ment of title to goods has been is­sued, the ware­house keep­er is en­titled and ob­liged to re­lease the goods only to the be­ne­fi­ciary named therein.