Swiss Civil Code

¹ Items which by their nature be­long to­geth­er must not be sep­ar­ated if one of the heirs ob­jects to such sep­ar­a­tion.

² Fam­ily doc­u­ments and items of spe­cial sen­ti­ment­al value to the fam­ily must not be sold if any of the heirs ob­jects.

³ If the heirs can­not reach agree­ment, the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity de­cides wheth­er to sell such items or to al­loc­ate them, against the re­cip­i­ent’s por­tion or oth­er­wise, giv­ing due re­gard to loc­al cus­tom and, in the ab­sence of such cus­tom, to the per­son­al cir­cum­stances of the heirs.