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Book 1 · General part  ›  Division 6 · Exercise of rights, self-defence, self-help › Section 230

Limits of self-help

(1) Self-help may not extend beyond what is required to ward off the danger.

(2) In the case in which things are removed, then, unless compulsory enforcement is being effected, a writ of attachment in rem is to be sought.

(3) In the case of the arrest of the person obliged, unless the person obliged is set free again, an application for their preventive custody is to be filed with the local court in the district of which the arrest took place; the person obliged is to be presented to the court without undue delay.

(4) If the application for arrest is delayed or rejected, the things seized are to be returned and the person arrested is to be released without undue delay.

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