State Act

Portuguese Civil Code, 1867

Article 2282 – Legal easement of water drainage – The low lying tenements are bound to receive the waters, which run down naturally and without work of man, from the higher tenements, as well as the mud and rubble, which they carry in their current. Neither the owner of low lying tenement shall carry out works which may hinder this easement, nor the owner of higher tenement works that may aggravate it.