Swiss Civil Code

¹ When this Code comes in­to force, any pro­vi­sions of fed­er­al civil law which con­tra­dict it are re­pealed.

² In par­tic­u­lar, the fol­low­ing are re­pealed: the Fed­er­al Act of 24 Decem­ber 1874⁸⁰² on the De­term­in­a­tion and Doc­u­ment­a­tion of Civil Status and Mar­riage; the Fed­er­al Act of 22 June 1881⁸⁰³ on Per­son­al Ca­pa­city to Act; the Fed­er­al Act of 14 June 1881⁸⁰⁴ on the Code of Ob­lig­a­tions.

³ The spe­cial acts con­cern­ing the rail­ways, steam­ships, the post, tele­graph and tele­phone ser­vices, the seizure and com­puls­ory li­quid­a­tion of rail­ways, the laws re­lat­ing to fact­ory em­ploy­ment and li­ab­il­ity arising from the op­er­a­tion of factor­ies and oth­er en­ter­prises, and all fed­er­al laws on mat­ters gov­erned by the Code of Ob­lig­a­tions which have been en­acted to sup­ple­ment the Fed­er­al Act of 14 June 1881 on the Code of Ob­lig­a­tions, re­main in force.