Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ A party is in de­fault if he or she fails to ac­com­plish a pro­ced­ur­al act with­in the set lim­it­a­tion peri­od or does not ap­pear when summoned to ap­pear.

² The pro­ceed­ings shall con­tin­ue without the act de­faul­ted on un­less the law provides oth­er­wise.

³ The court shall draw the parties' at­ten­tion to the con­sequences of de­fault.