Key legal question
Whether the seized shoe-last machine and band saw were unseizable tools under Art. 92 no. 3 SchKG.
Extracted holding
The exemption applies only to the actual personal exercise of a trade based mainly on individual skill; it does not cover an operation that has become a capital- and machine-based undertaking. The machines were therefore not unseizable.
Extracted reasoning
The court distinguished ordinary trade activity from a business qualifying as an enterprise through the use of capital, hired labor, and elemental force. Since the machines were driven by water/power and contributed mechanized production, they were not mere necessary tools of a protected occupation.