Enforcement of Payment Order After Alleged Novation

This case involves an appeal regarding the enforcement of a payment order where the debtor alleged that the underlying claim was extinguished by novation, specifically through the substitution of a new contractual obligation for the old one, and the creditor argued that the novation was not sufficiently proven and that the payment order remained valid based on the original debt. The court held that for a novation to extinguish the original obligation, the intent to substitute the new obligation for the old must be clear and unequivocal, and since the evidence presented did not definitively establish a complete and unconditional substitution of the original debt with a new one, the original basis for the payment order remained valid and enforceable.