State Act

Portuguese Civil Code, 1867

Article 353 - Rescission of acts performed in a state of accidental incapacity - The acts and contracts performed by persons who at the time thereof are accidentally deprived of making use of their reason, by any bout of delirium, inebriation or any other similar cause, may be rescinded, if, within the ten days immediately after the re-establishment of reason, the said persons file an objection before any Notary, in the presence of two witnesses, and file the competent suit within the twenty days that follow. § Sole paragraph - This suit may only benefit the heirs of the above-mentioned persons, if the same should die without recovering their reason, or before the expiry of the ten days within which they had to file objections, provided however that it be filed within the twenty days subsequent to the death.