Question juridique clé
Whether the defendant submitted to the Baden court despite lack of local jurisdiction for the general negative declaratory action
Solution extraite
Yes. The defendant addressed the merits in his rejoinder without timely and expressly raising the objection of local incompetence, so the Baden court became competent by submission.
Motifs extraits
For submission under Art. 10 GestG, the defendant must respond on the merits without raising the jurisdiction objection. The objection must be primary and unconditional; a merely subsidiary or indirect reservation is insufficient. The defendant argued the merits and only referred to the wrong procedural route, not to local incompetence.