Indemnity in public utility expropriation must be regulated by the law in force at the time of the declaration.

The Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa upheld the appeal, ruling that compensation for public utility expropriation is governed by the law effective at the time of the declaration. The appellant argued that applying a newer statute violated the principle of non-retroactivity, while the opposing party contended for the current legal framework. The court decided in favor of the appellant, establishing that the temporal validity of the law at the moment of declaration dictates the compensation rules.