State Act

Portuguese Civil Code, 1867

Article 2283 – Protection works to contain waters – The owner of the tenement, where there are protection works to contain the waters, or where it is necessary, due to change of the course of the same waters, to construct them again is bound to carry out the required repairs or to agree that the owners of tenements that suffer, or are exposed to impending losses due to lack of such repairs, carry them out without loss to him.