Prevention of Jurisdiction (*Prevenção do Juízo*)
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The fixing of a court’s jurisdiction over a case by the registration or assignment of the initial petition, which also draws to that same court the judgment of related actions.
Legal reference: Code of Civil Procedure, arts. 55, 59.