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


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Art. 494

III. Spouse’s con­sent

 

1 A mar­ried per­son may val­idly stand as surety only with the writ­ten con­sent of his spouse giv­en in ad­vance or at the latest sim­ul­tan­eously, un­less the spouses are sep­ar­ated by court judg­ment.

2 ...274

3 The spouse’s con­sent to sub­sequent amend­ments of a con­tract of surety is re­quired only where the total li­ab­il­ity is to be in­creased or a simple surety is to be trans­formed in­to a joint and sev­er­al surety, or where the ef­fect of the amend­ment is to di­min­ish the level of se­cur­ity sub­stan­tially.

4 The same ap­plies mu­tatis mutandis to re­gistered part­ners.275

274 Re­pealed by No I of the FA of 17 June 2005 (Sureties. Spouse’s con­sent), with ef­fect from 1 Dec. 2005 (AS 2005 5097; BBl 2004 49554965).

275Amended by An­nex No 11 to the Same-Sex Part­ner­ship Act of 18 June 2004, in force since 1 Jan. 2007 (AS 2005 5685; BBl 2003 1288).

 
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