Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the liquidation share in an undistributed estate could be arrested in Switzerland despite the debtor’s residence abroad.
Decisione estratta
No. The liquidation share was treated as the asset to be arrested, and its place of enforcement was not located in Switzerland merely because the estate or the deceased’s last domicile was in Switzerland.
Motivazione estratta
The court upheld the view that Art. 49 SchKG did not apply because the hereditary community is not a third debtor vis-à-vis the heir. Under Art. 2 VVAG, the relevant place is the debtor’s domicile; since the debtor lived in Peru, Swiss authorities lacked arrest jurisdiction. The last domicile of the deceased and the estate’s location were not decisive.