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

¹ A party is un­der duress if, in the cir­cum­stances, he has good cause to be­lieve that there is im­min­ent and sub­stan­tial risk to his own life, limb, repu­ta­tion or prop­erty or to those of a per­son close to him.

² The fear that an­oth­er per­son might en­force a le­git­im­ate claim is taken in­to con­sid­er­a­tion only where the straitened cir­cum­stances of the party un­der duress have been ex­ploited in or­der to ex­tort ex­cess­ive be­ne­fits from him.