Swiss Civil Code

¹ If the heirs of the per­son pre­sumed dead are already in pos­ses­sion of his or her prop­erty and an in­her­it­ance passes to him or her, his or her co-heirs may in­voke this fact and re­quest that such in­her­it­ance be re­leased to them without need for a second de­clar­a­tion of pre­sumed death.

² The heirs of the per­son pre­sumed dead may like­wise in­voke a de­clar­a­tion of pre­sumed death ob­tained by the co-heirs.