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

Art. 8441

D. Pay­ment

I. Na­tion­al cur­rency

 

1 Pe­cu­ni­ary debts must be dis­charged in leg­al tender of the cur­rency in which the debt was in­curred.

2A debt ex­pressed in a cur­rency oth­er than the na­tion­al cur­rency of the place of pay­ment may be dis­charged in that na­tion­al cur­rency at the rate of ex­change that ap­plies on the day it falls due, un­less lit­er­al per­form­ance is re­quired by in­clu­sion in the con­tract of the ex­pres­sion ‘ac­tu­al cur­rency’ or words to that ef­fect.

41 Amended by An­nex No 2 to the FA of 22 Dec. 1999 on Cur­rency and Pay­ment In­stru­ments, in force since 1 May 2000 (AS 2002 1144; BBl 1999 7258).