Swiss Civil Code

¹ If the own­er re­cor­ded in the land re­gister can­not be iden­ti­fied, if his or her ad­dress is un­known or if the name or ad­dress of one or more of his or her heirs is un­known, the court may on ap­plic­a­tion or­der the re­quired meas­ures.

² The court may in par­tic­u­lar ap­point a rep­res­ent­at­ive. On ap­plic­a­tion, it shall stip­u­late the ex­tent of the powers of rep­res­ent­a­tion. Un­less it stip­u­lates oth­er­wise, such powers shall be lim­ited to meas­ures to main­tain the prop­erty.

³ The fol­low­ing may ap­ply for meas­ures to be ordered:

1.

any per­son with a le­git­im­ate in­terest;

2.

the land re­gister at the loc­a­tion of the im­mov­able prop­erty.

⁴ The or­der­ing of meas­ures does not in­ter­rupt the peri­od re­quired to ob­tain ex­traordin­ary ad­verse pos­ses­sion.