Acórdão em Relação judging the chapel of S. Brás, founded by Fernando Vaz, in Aveiro, next to the church of S. Miguel, as absoluta, because it is not vacant, whether it is of regular succession or appointment. The chapel was denounced as vacant to the Crown by Tomás da Costa Corte-Real, plaintiff, since the institutor's lineage is extincted. It orders that D. Tomás Jordão de Noronha, qualified part in the proceedings, must remain in the chapel's administration and if D. Catarina da Veiga, his sister and defendant, wants to demand him she must do it in the competent court. While D. Catarina da Veiga and her husband, João de Nápoles, defendants, argue that the chapel is of appointment, D. Tomás Jordão de Noronha, qualified part, argues that it is of regular succession.