Question juridique clé
Whether the bankruptcy judgment could be treated as null and refused execution because the debtor was domiciled in France, not Switzerland.
Solution extraite
Yes. A judicial bankruptcy judgment entered despite a manifest lack of Swiss domicile is affected by a grave, easily detectable defect and is null.
Motifs extraits
The surveillance authority may not declare null a judicial decision under Art. 22 LP as such, but it may recognize judicial nullity ex officio. Nullity of a court decision is exceptional and requires a serious, manifest defect, typically qualified incompetence. Here the debtor was undeniably domiciled in France, so the bankruptcy judgment at an ordinary Swiss forum was manifestly defective; because execution had not begun, legal certainty was not jeopardized.