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Personal bankruptcy in Switzerland is possible only for persons registered in the commercial register (art. 39 LP) or by declaration of insolvency (art. 191 LP) for non-registered persons. The declaration of insolvency allows the debtor to request the judge to open bankruptcy proceedings…
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- I appreciate your instructions, but you haven't provided any text to translate. You've set up the preferred glossary and indicated that LP 191 should be preserved, but there's no actual content following it. Please provide the Swiss legal text you'd like me to translate into English, and I will: - Use your preferred glossary terms (formal notice → formal notice, payment order → payment order, lease agreement → lease agreement) - Preserve all protected tokens like LP 191 - Keep all URLs, law references, amounts, dates, citations, and placeholders exactly as they appear — Declaration of Insolvency of the Debtor
- LP 265 — Act of Lack of Assets — Insolvency
- I'm ready to translate Swiss legal documents into English. I understand my instructions: - Preserve every protected token (like LP 149a) - Keep all URLs, law references, amounts, dates, citations, and placeholders exactly as they appear - Use the preferred glossary: formal notice = formal notice, payment order = payment order, lease agreement = lease agreement - Return only the translation However, I notice that the text to translate is just "LP 149a" with no actual content. Please provide the Swiss legal text you would like me to translate into English. — Deed of Deficiency of Assets — Limitation of Actions
- LP 293 — Concordatary reprieve
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