Question juridique clé
Whether the 30 June 2000 cession agreement released the brothers from the CHF 300,000 debt acknowledgment as a remission of debt or saldo quittance.
Solution extraite
No. The agreement, read in context, did not extinguish the separate debt acknowledgment; it only reflected the conditions for the creditor’s cession of the underlying loan claim.
Motifs extraits
A clause seemingly excluding further claims must be interpreted in light of the whole contract and the parties’ conduct. Here, the simultaneous requirement of a separate debt acknowledgment showed that the bank intended to reserve that claim.