Questão jurídica principal
Whether the death of a foreign person domiciled abroad may be entered in the Swiss civil status register.
Decisão extraída
No. A foreign death abroad, concerning a foreign person not registered in Switzerland and with no Swiss civil-status nexus, is not registrable.
Fundamentação extraída
Art. 15a(2) and Art. 23(2) ZStV require a Swiss-relevant civil-status event or a specific Swiss nexus; none existed because the death occurred abroad, the person was not in the register, and he was neither Swiss-born nor otherwise linked through family-law effects.