Swiss Civil Procedure Code

¹The pen­dency of an ac­tion has in par­tic­u­lar the fol­low­ing ef­fects:

a

the sub­ject mat­ter of the dis­pute may not be made pending else­where between the same parties;

b.

the ter­rit­ori­al jur­is­dic­tion of the court is main­tained.

²When com­pli­ance with stat­utory dead­line un­der private law de­pends on the date of the state­ment of claim, of rais­ing an ac­tion or of an­oth­er act ini­ti­at­ing leg­al pro­ceed­ings, the rel­ev­ant mo­ment is that of pen­dency in ac­cord­ance with this Code.