State Act

Portuguese Civil Code, 1867

Article 1150 – Illegal alienation of endowed immobile assets - The dotal immobile assets, alienated in violation of what is laid down in the preceding article, may be recovered by the wife, either during the subsistence of the marriage or after its dissolution or after separation, even though she had consented to the alienation. § 1 - In case the alienated assets are mobiliary, the recovery dealt with in this article shall be permitted only in the following circumstances: 1. Whenever the husband does not hold assets which may make good the value of the alienated assets; 2. When the alienations, made by the husband as well as the ones subsequently made between third parties, were under gratuitous title or in bad faith. § 2 - The right of recovery devolves on the heirs of the wife.