State Act

Portuguese Civil Code, 1867

Article 377 – Immobile things and mobiliary things – When in the civil law or in the acts or contracts, the expression - immobile assets or things - is used, without any other qualification, it shall include not only those which are immovable by nature or human action as also those which are so by operation of law. When the expression - “immovables”, “immovable things or assets” – is used simply, this shall mean only those which are so by nature or by human action. § Sole paragraph - In the same way the expression - mobiliary assets or things shall include not only movables by nature as those which by operation of law and by the words - movable, movable things or assets shall be meant only physical objects which are movables by nature.