Swiss Civil Code

¹ In the course of draw­ing up the in­vent­ory, the au­thor­ity shall make a form­al call to ac­count whereby ap­pro­pri­ate pub­lic no­tices are is­sued call­ing on all cred­it­ors and debt­ors of the de­ceased, in­clud­ing cred­it­ors un­der a surety, to come for­ward and re­gister their claims and debts with­in a spe­cified time lim­it.

² Such no­tices must alert the cred­it­ors to the con­sequences of any fail­ure to re­gister.

³ The time lim­it for re­gis­ter­ing must not be earli­er than one month from the date of the first pub­lic no­tice.