State Act

Code of Comunidades of 1961

Art. 575 – Only documentary evidence is admissible. § 1. The payment is to be proved by a certified copy or receipt referring to the Cash book, issued by the clerk , where from it is established the entry in the safe of the respective comunidade of the amount paid which is required to be proved. § 2. The attorney or the clerk of the comunidade may challenge that the document produced is forged, in which case the respective file has to be forwarded to the court for the decision on this incident. § 3. The liabilities of the treasurer is not to be adjusted with any amount which the latter may be entitled to from the comunidade.