Documents produced by the entail.

Opening deed of the will of Manuel Cerveira Coutinho.

Will of Manuel Cerveira Coutinho and his wife Catarina Garcês de Azevedo. The couple used their 'terças' to institute a morgado, entailing properties and rents in Porto, S. Pedro de Fajozes and Baião. Their bodies were to be buried in the Convent of S. Domingos in Porto, in a tomb located in the chancel of the church, "beyond the bars". They appointed their son António Cerveira as first administrator, or alternatively his brother Luís Garcês Cerviera. The first administrators were obliged to pay a yearly rent to the maintenance of their sisters, who were nuns. Succession was to go to the first-born son, excluding clerics. The administrators were obliged to entail other estates, to use the family name and to make an inventory.

Followed by the approval deed (1603-[...-...], fls. 212-212v).