Article 148 of Code of Civil Procedure

The parties may petition for reconsideration of judgments issued as final in the following cases: a - If the opposing party committed fraud capable of affecting the judgment. b - If the judgment was based on documents whose forgery was admitted or judicially established after its issuance, or was based on the testimony of a witness that was adjudged false after its issuance. c - If, after the judgment was issued, the petitioner obtained documents decisive in the action whose submission his opponent had prevented. d - If the judgment awarded something the parties had not requested or more than they had requested. e - If the operative part of the judgment is internally contradictory. f - If the judgment was issued against a natural or legal person who was not properly represented in the action, except in the case of representation by agreement. Law Index 633 Home Page Code of Procedure Decree-Law No. 38 of 1980 Promulgating the Code of Civil and Commercial Procedure