Key legal question
Whether Art. 216a OR's ten-year limit applies retroactively to an option right agreed before 1994
Extracted holding
The statutory ten-year limit does not apply to this pre-existing contractual option right; it remained valid at the time of the gifts.
Extracted reasoning
The revision was not enacted for public order and morality, so Art. 2 SchlT ZGB did not justify retroactivity. Under Art. 3 SchlT ZGB, the duration of an option right is part of the contract's autonomous content, not a matter fixed by law irrespective of party will.