State Act

Portuguese Civil Code, 1867

Article 2423 – Kinds of authentic documents - Authentic documents are either official or extra official. § 1 - Authentic official documents are those which are drawn or issued by government offices, municipal councils, or church authorities entrusted with administration of dioceses and also judicial acts and all the documents recorded in the registers of all public offices, either extinct or existing. § 2 - The following are considered as public registrations, in order to decide whether the documents qualify as authentic, the Archives of extinct ecclesiastical corporations, preserved in any public office when they have been compiled by virtue of royal decrees and in the manner provided therein. § 3 - Authentic extra-official documents are the instruments, acts or deeds, drawn by public officials or with their intervention, in cases where such intervention is prescribed by the law, and meant for confirmation of contracts or the conservation or to the transfer of rights.