All 26 cantons. Three tiers of Swiss law.
Silex indexes federal statutes from the SR catalogue, published and unpublished Federal Tribunal decisions, and cantonal court decisions from every Swiss jurisdiction.
What is in the index.
Federal statutes and ordinances.
The SR (Systematische Rechtssammlung) numbers every in-force federal act and ordinance. Silex indexes the full catalogue and maintains currency with fedlex.admin.ch updates.
Codes and major acts
The OR (Code of Obligations), ZGB (Civil Code), StGB (Criminal Code), ZPO (Code of Civil Procedure), BGG, and all major federal acts are fully indexed by article. Cross-references within the SR catalogue are mapped and traversable.
- OR (SR 220), ZGB (SR 210), StGB (SR 311.0)
- ZPO (SR 272), BGG (SR 173.110), SchKG (SR 281.1)
- Complete SR catalogue coverage
Ordinances and implementing regulations
Federal ordinances that implement or specify statute provisions are indexed at the article level and linked upward to the enabling statute. This allows Silex to return the complete regulatory chain when the controlling norm is an ordinance rather than a code.
- All federal ordinances with SR numbers
- Enabling statute links preserved
- Amendment history tracked
Cantonal court decisions by jurisdiction.
Cantonal superior courts interpret and apply federal law. Their decisions matter when advising clients about jurisdiction-specific risk. Coverage depth reflects each canton's own publication practices.
| Canton | Abbreviation | Language | Decision coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zurich | ZH |
German | Full online publication since 2010 |
| Bern | BE |
German / French | Selected decisions; full since 2015 |
| Lucerne | LU |
German | Published superior court decisions |
| Uri | UR |
German | Selected landmark decisions |
| Schwyz | SZ |
German | Published superior court decisions |
| Obwalden | OW |
German | Selected decisions |
| Nidwalden | NW |
German | Selected decisions |
| Glarus | GL |
German | Selected decisions |
| Zug | ZG |
German | Published superior court decisions |
| Fribourg | FR |
French / German | Full online publication |
| Solothurn | SO |
German | Published superior court decisions |
| Basel-Stadt | BS |
German | Full online publication since 2012 |
| Basel-Landschaft | BL |
German | Published superior court decisions |
| Schaffhausen | SH |
German | Selected decisions |
| Appenzell Ausserrhoden | AR |
German | Selected decisions |
| Appenzell Innerrhoden | AI |
German | Selected decisions |
| St. Gallen | SG |
German | Full online publication since 2011 |
| Grisons | GR |
German / Italian / Romansh | Published superior court decisions |
| Aargau | AG |
German | Published superior court decisions |
| Thurgau | TG |
German | Published superior court decisions |
| Ticino | TI |
Italian | Full online publication |
| Vaud | VD |
French | Full online publication since 2009 |
| Valais | VS |
French / German | Published superior court decisions |
| Neuchatel | NE |
French | Published superior court decisions |
| Geneva | GE |
French | Full online publication since 2007 |
| Jura | JU |
French | Selected decisions |
Coverage depth reflects the individual canton's own publication practices. Our legal research team supplements publicly available decisions with decisions obtained through direct court registry partnerships where publication is limited.
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