Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ The no­ti­fy­ing party may as­sert the rights that he or she be­lieves, in the event that he or she is un­suc­cess­ful, he or she will have against the no­ti­fied party in­sti­tut­ing the dis­pute or that it fears the no­ti­fied party may have against it be­fore the court hear­ing the main ac­tion, provided that:

a.

the claims are fac­tu­ally re­lated to the main ac­tion;

b.

the court has ma­ter­i­al jur­is­dic­tion; and

c.

the main ac­tion and the claims are to be as­sessed in or­din­ary pro­ceed­ings.⁵²

² The no­ti­fied third party may not bring a fur­ther third-party ac­tion.

³ …⁵³