Questione giuridica chiave
Whether a cooperative statute can require a departing member to pay a fixed exit indemnity regardless of proven damage.
Decisione estratta
No. A statutory exit indemnity payable automatically, without proof of actual prejudice or threat to the cooperative's existence, is unlawful and void.
Motivazione estratta
Art. 842(2) CO presupposes a serious prejudice caused by the exit. A fixed payment independent of damage operates like a contractual penalty and may effectively make the right of withdrawal excessively burdensome, conflicting with the mandatory freedom of exit.