Question juridique clé
Whether the request for clarification of the 1963 judgment was admissible and timely
Solution extraite
The court would only deal with the request if it qualified as a clarification request under §§ 317 ff. ZPO in conjunction with § 58 VRG; in any event, it was clearly out of time because clarification must be requested within 30 days after service of the judgment, and a request filed nearly 15 years later could not be treated as timely.
Motifs extraits
Clarification is an authentic interpretation by the deciding judges. Such interpretation becomes practically impossible after many years, especially where most panel members and the clerk are no longer in office. The court therefore refused to enter into the request and noted that any genuinely unclear point could only be litigated anew.