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

¹ The pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing the fol­low­ing as­pects of bills of ex­change also ap­ply to promis­sory notes, un­less they run counter to the es­sen­tial nature of the lat­ter:

en­dorse­ment (Art. 1001–1010);

ma­tur­ity (Art. 1023–1027);

pay­ment (Art. 1028–1032);

re­course for non-pay­ment (Art. 1033–1047, 1049–1051);

pay­ment for hon­our (Art. 1054, 1058–1062);

cop­ies (Art. 1066 and 1067);

amend­ments (Art. 1068);

pre­scrip­tion (Art. 1069–1071);

an­nul­ment (Art. 1072–1080);

pub­lic hol­i­days, com­pu­ta­tion of time lim­its, ex­clu­sion of days of res­pite, place for ac­tions in con­nec­tion with bills of ex­change, and sig­na­tures (Art. 1081–1085).

² Fur­ther, promis­sory notes are sub­ject to the pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing bills of ex­change in re­la­tion to bills dom­i­ciled with a third party or at a place oth­er than the drawee’s dom­i­cile (Art. 994 and 1017), the in­terest rate com­ment (Art. 995), dis­crep­an­cies in the spe­cific­a­tion of the amount (Art. 996), the con­sequences of in­val­id sig­na­tures (Art. 997) or of sig­na­tures by per­sons lack­ing power of rep­res­ent­a­tion or ex­ceed­ing such power (Art. 998), and blank bills (Art. 1000).

³ Like­wise, promis­sory notes are sub­ject to the pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing bills of ex­change in re­la­tion to bill guar­an­tees (Art. 1020–1022); in the case of Art­icle 1021 para­graph 4, where the de­clar­a­tion does not in­dic­ate the party for whom it is made, the bill guar­an­tee is deemed giv­en for the maker of the promis­sory note.