Questão jurídica principal
Whether the land-sale contract was governed by Swiss law rather than Bolivian law under the conflict-of-law rules.
Decisão extraída
The contract remained subject to Bolivian law; the Swiss connections invoked by the appellant were insufficient to displace the special rule for contracts concerning land.
Fundamentação extraída
For real-estate sales, the place-of-situs rule in Art. 119(1) IPRG normally applies because of the strong connection to property law and mandatory public-law rules. The circumstances relied on by the appellant did not show the exceptional weak connection required to depart from that rule.