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Code of Obligations

Switzerland [1912]

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development of civil law systems

  • Justinian I
    In civil law: Swiss law

    …1907, together with a separate Code of Obligations, went into effect in 1912. These new federal codes superseded the earlier codes of the separate cantons (which had generally been patterned after the Austrian or the French model). The drafters of the Swiss code took advantage of earlier experiences with codification…

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