Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ The leg­al ef­fect and en­force­ab­il­ity of those parts of the con­tested de­cision to which the ap­plic­a­tions in the ap­peal re­late shall be sus­pen­ded.

² The ap­peal does not have sus­pens­ive ef­fect if it is filed against a de­cision on:

a.

the right of reply;

b.

in­ter­im meas­ures.

c.

dir­ec­tions to debt­ors;

d.

the se­cur­ity provided for main­ten­ance.²⁴⁸

³ If the ap­peal is against an or­gan­isa­tion­al de­cision, it shall al­ways have sus­pens­ive ef­fect.²⁴⁹

⁴ If the party con­cerned is threatened with not eas­ily re­par­able harm, the ap­pel­late court may on re­quest:

a.

au­thor­ise early en­force­ment and, if ne­ces­sary, or­der pro­tect­ive meas­ures or the pro­vi­sion of se­cur­ity; or

b.

ex­cep­tion­ally de­fer en­force­ab­il­ity in the cases re­ferred to in para­graph 2.²⁵⁰

⁵The ap­pel­late court may de­cide be­fore the ap­peal is filed. The or­der is auto­mat­ic­ally can­celled if no grounds for the first in­stance de­cision are re­ques­ted or the dead­line for the ap­peal ex­pires un­used.²⁵¹