Questão jurídica principal
Whether the public law appeal was admissible despite subsidiarity and the civil nature of the dispute
Decisão extraída
The appeal was admissible only insofar as it invoked constitutional arbitrariness; other complaints were excluded by subsidiarity.
Fundamentação extraída
The Court held that ordinary and nullity appeals were not open against the application of foreign law in this pecuniary civil dispute, but a constitutional complaint for arbitrariness remained available.