Key legal question
Whether the members' expulsion under a statutory general clause was challengeable on the merits under Art. 72 ZGB
Extracted holding
The expulsion was based on a statutory general clause equivalent to exclusion without stated reasons and was therefore not open to material review; only procedural defects or abuse of rights would be reviewable.
Extracted reasoning
The legislative history and established case law show that association autonomy is meant to be broad; a vague exclusion clause is treated like an exclusion without reason, making a merits challenge inadmissible. No procedural defect or abuse of rights was shown.