State Act

Code of Comunidades of 1961

Art. 568 – The current accounts give the respective comunidade the following rights:– § 1. To calculate the interest in its favour at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, with effect from the date of service of summons, in case no interest was payable on the debt, or else in case of interest was payable, but it was lower or higher than 6 per cent. § 2. To calculate against the debtor, in accordance of article 628, 3 per cent of the debt in favour of the respective recovery court. § 3. To permit the arrest of the debtor in the case provided by the article 418 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Codigo de Processo Civil).