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How does a personal bankruptcy proceed?
In Swiss law, personal bankruptcy primarily concerns persons registered in the commercial register (art. 39 LP). For other persons, the ordinary proceeding is enforcement by seizure. However, any debtor may request his own bankruptcy if he declares himself insolvent…
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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 exactly as they appear, using your preferred glossary where applicable. However, I notice that the text to translate contains only `LP 39` without any actual content. Please provide the Swiss legal text you would like me to translate, and I will proceed with the translation following your specifications. — Bankruptcy proceedings
- LP 265 — Closure of bankruptcy
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