Art. 59 OG; determination of claim value for federal jurisdiction and choice between written and oral appeal procedure. Where cantonal civil procedure provides that the relevant pleadings are the oral requests made at the main hearing and that new facts may still be asserted until that moment, the value in dispute is assessed as of the first-instance main hearing rather than by reference to the earlier written complaint and answer. If the threshold is reached at that date, Federal Court jurisdiction is established and the oral federal procedure applies (consid. 1).