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I want to return my apartment before the end of the lease agreement
In Swiss law, the tenant may return the leased property early if he presents to the landlord a replacement tenant who is solvent and whom the landlord cannot reasonably refuse (art. 264 al. 1 CO). The replacement tenant must be willing to take over the lease agreement at…
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- I'm ready to translate Swiss legal text into English while preserving all protected tokens, URLs, law references, amounts, dates, citations, and placeholders. However, I notice that the text to be translated is shown only as "CO 264" (a protected token). Since this token must be preserved exactly, the translation would be: CO 264 Please provide the actual text content you would like me to translate, and I will apply the preferred glossary you've provided while maintaining all protected tokens exactly as they appear. — Early Return of the Thing
- I'm ready to translate Swiss legal text into English while preserving all protected tokens, URLs, law references, amounts, dates, citations, and placeholders according to your preferred glossary. However, I notice that the text to translate appears to be only "CO 266g" which is a protected token placeholder. Please provide the actual Swiss legal text you would like me to translate, and I will: - Preserve every protected token (__JB_KEEP_*__) exactly as is - Preserve every URL, law reference, amount, date, citation and placeholder exactly - Apply your preferred glossary terms (formal notice → formal notice, payment order → payment order, lease agreement → lease agreement, etc.) - Return only the translation without additional commentary I'm ready to proceed once you provide the text. — Termination for Good Cause
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