Questão jurídica principal
Whether the Solothurn court could fill a procedural lacuna and accept an inter-cantonal passive transfer of the case.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The cantonal procedural law did not expressly regulate passive inter-cantonal transfer, and the appellate court could fill that gap consistently with the service function of civil procedure.
Fundamentação extraída
No qualified legislative silence was shown. Under Art. 1 ZGB, gap-filling is a permissible method of judicial legal development, including in civil procedure. Given the cantons' procedural autonomy and the aim of facilitating substantive law enforcement, the finding of a gap and the resulting transfer were not arbitrary.