Question juridique clé
Whether the cantonal appeal court had to remit the case to the first instance before pronouncing bankruptcy.
Solution extraite
No. On appeal, the superior court may itself reform the first-instance judgment and pronounce bankruptcy when the conditions are met.
Motifs extraits
Article 174 LP does not reserve the bankruptcy pronouncement to the first instance; the appeal is devolutive, and Article 174(2) applies only to the debtor's appeal against a bankruptcy judgment, not to create a right to an additional first-instance decision.