Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court could, in enforcement proceedings, deem the notarized deeds signed instead of limiting itself to penal pressure.
Extracted holding
Yes. In cantonal enforcement of a judgment ordering a declaration of will, the court may state that the necessary deeds are deemed signed; it did not act arbitrarily.
Extracted reasoning
The judgment on the merits only imposed a duty to declare will, so enforcement under cantonal law was available. Article 516 CPC/VD allows the judgment to stand in place of the declaration, and the enforcement judge was not confined to criminal coercion under Article 512a CPC/VD.