Federal Act
on Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy
(DEBA)¹

¹ The cred­it­or and debt­or may bring an ac­tion against the third party to have his claim de­clared un­foun­ded if the claim relates to

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a mov­able item in the cus­tody or joint cus­tody of the third party;

2.

a claim or oth­er right, provided that the third party’s en­ti­tle­ment is more likely than that of the debt­or;

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im­mov­able prop­erty, provided the claim is re­cor­ded in the land re­gister.

² The debt en­force­ment of­fice shall set them a dead­line of 20 days to do so.

³ If no ac­tion is filed, the claim shall be deemed to have been re­cog­nised in the debt en­force­ment pro­ceed­ings in ques­tion.

⁴ On the de­mand of the cred­it­or or the debt­or, the third party shall be re­ques­ted to sub­mit his evid­ence to the debt en­force­ment of­fice for in­spec­tion with­in the time lim­it for bring­ing an ac­tion. Art­icle 73 para­graph 2 ap­plies mu­tatis mutandis.