State Act

Portuguese Civil Code, 1867

Article 552 – Causes of interruption of prescription – Prescription is interrupted: 1. If the possessor is deprived of the possession of the thing or of the right for the period of one year; 2. By service of summons made to the possessor or debtor except where the plaintiff withdraws the suit or the suit is dismissed at the outset or where there is non prosecution of the suit; 3. By attachment, summons for conciliation, judicial protest, counted from the date of occurrence, where within one month from the date of the event, the plaintiff files the suit in the court; 4. By express acknowledgement, either by words or by writing, of the right of the person who may be adversely affected by prescription, or by facts from which such recognition is necessarily implied.