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.

Chancery record of a warrant to decide a judicial demand on behalf of João de Nápoles de Sampaio.

Court proceedings regarding the succession of the chapel of S. Brás, founded by Fernando Vaz, in Aveiro, next to the church of S. Miguel.

Court proceedings regarding the succession of the Hospital of S. Brás, founded by Fernando Vaz de Agonide, in Aveiro.

Court sentence judging D. Tomás, minor, and D. Paula Maria Josefa de Mendonça, his mother and tutor, plaintiffs, as administrators of the Hospital of S. Brás, founded by Fernando Vaz de Agonide, in Aveiro, succeeding to D. Tomás de Nápoles, father of D. Tomás, according to the succession clauses changed in a papal brief dated from 1582, which stated that the hospital should have a regular succession as an entail. Until then, the successors are appointed by the current administrators. Both opponent, D. Joana de Sousa e Alcáçova, and defendants, João de Nápoles and D. Catarina, his wife, invoked this argument. It condemns the defendant to relinquish the hospital's properties, with the income generated since the undue occupation until their return.

Documents produced by the entail.

Warrant to decide a judicial demand on behalf of João de Nápoles de Sampaio concerning the administration of the chapel and hospital founded by Fernando Vaz de Agonide, which was moved by Isabel de Sá Macedo against him in Correição do Cível da Corte, and then appealed in Casa da Suplicação court. The demand concerned the succession on the entail's administration, claimed by Isabel de Sá based on a papal bull by pope Paulo III which altered the succession clauses imposed by the institutor on the foundation deed. João de Nápoles contested the decision presenting the argument that the Bull coud not alter the succession clauses once it was a profane Hospital and then appealed directly to the king asking for the cause to be judged in the Juízo da Coroa, once such alteration concerned only the royal jurisdiction. The king accepted the appeal and decided that the cause should be judged within two months.