Question juridique clé
Whether the property had ever been formally subjected to the federal debt-relief act.
Solution extraite
That objection was irrelevant; in Obwalden every agriculturally used parcel is treated as subject to the act unless the competent authority removes it from that status or declares it no longer agricultural.
Motifs extraits
The property was agricultural when the federal act entered into force and was therefore subject to it from the outset. A formal subjection decision was not required to maintain that status under the cantonal practice and implementing regulation.