Key legal question
Whether bankruptcy opening upon notification of overindebtedness under Art. 725 OR and Art. 192 SchKG may be made conditional on payment of a cost advance.
Extracted holding
No. In a bankruptcy opened after overindebtedness notification, the court may not make the opening dependent on a cost advance.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 725 OR serves to protect creditors and the public, and the overindebtedness notification is not a voluntary bankruptcy declaration. Conditioning the statutory bankruptcy opening on advance payment would contradict that purpose.