Question juridique clé
Whether the succession pact and bank statements constituted an enforceable acknowledgement of debt under Art. 82 para. 1 SchKG.
Solution extraite
No. The signed pact did not clearly refer to the bank statements, and the debt amount was not readily determinable from the documents alone.
Motifs extraits
A debt acknowledgement requires a signed instrument from which the promise to pay a determinable and due sum is clear. Here, the pact mentioned only a first-rank mortgage interest on CHF 200,000, while the bank statements concerned a CHF 500,000 loan at 3.5% without a clear link to the pact.