Swiss Civil Code

¹ Out­side the lim­its of every­day house­keep­ing, the spouses may in­cur com­mit­ments on be­half of the com­mon prop­erty and dis­pose there­of only jointly or in­di­vidu­ally with the oth­er’s con­sent.

² Third parties are en­titled to pre­sume such con­sent provided they do not know or can­not be ex­pec­ted to know that it is ab­sent.

³ The pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing rep­res­ent­a­tion of the mar­it­al uni­on are re­served.