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

¹ The donor who has made a prom­ise to give may re­voke the prom­ise and re­fuse to ful­fil it:

1.

on the same grounds as jus­ti­fy a claim for re­turn of the ob­ject giv­en in the case of a gift from hand to hand;

2.

where since the prom­ise was made the donor’s fin­an­cial situ­ation has altered to such an ex­tent that mak­ing the gift would cause ser­i­ous hard­ship;

3.

where since the prom­ise was made the donor has ac­quired du­ties un­der fam­ily law that pre­vi­ously did not ex­ist or were sig­ni­fic­antly less oner­ous.

² All prom­ises to give are an­nulled when a cer­ti­fic­ate of loss is is­sued against the donor or he is de­clared bank­rupt.