Questão jurídica principal
Whether the request for relief was filed within the statutory time limit after service of the default judgment
Decisão extraída
No. The judgment had been sent by registered mail to the address used by the appellant during the proceedings; the unclaimed item was deemed notified after the postal holding period, so the relief request filed in 2009 was far out of time.
Fundamentação extraída
If a judicial act cannot be delivered and is not collected during the seven-day holding period, it is deemed notified on the last day of that period. Here, the appellant had used the Lutry address and the postal item was not claimed, so the 20-day period started on 2 November 2005.