Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the appellant could terminate the faustpfand contract and demand return of the pledged mortgage note.
Decisione estratta
No. A pledge contract serving a security purpose is not terminable unilaterally without an agreed cancellation right; Article 27(2) CC did not help the appellant here.
Motivazione estratta
The Court held that a cancellation right would conflict with the security function of the pledge. Even if the contract were treated as a continuing obligation, the pledgee’s interests and the pledgor’s ability to redeem the pledge by paying the secured debt provided sufficient protection. The third-party pledgor had no autonomous termination right under the underlying credit relationship, and Article 512 CO could not be analogically applied.