Key legal question
Whether the notarized land sale deed satisfied the public-form requirement despite splitting the buyer's true consideration into separate clauses.
Extracted holding
The total consideration for the property transfer included both the stated purchase price and the additional CHF 500,000 pledge-redemption payment; the deed therefore recorded an objectively and subjectively false purchase price and was invalid.
Extracted reasoning
For a land sale, public form covers all essential terms, including the total monetary consideration. Payments made to a pledge creditor as part of the agreed consideration economically increase the seller's assets just like payment to the seller, and must be included in the purchase price.