Questão jurídica principal
Whether the licensee could immediately terminate the licence contract and recover the advance payment after the criminal seizure blocked performance.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The seizure made performance impossible; any interpellation or grace period would have been useless, so immediate termination was effective and the advance had to be repaid.
Fundamentação extraída
The Federal Court applied Art. 102 and 107-109 CO by substitution of reasons: once the debtor could no longer perform within a reasonable time, the creditor could withdraw immediately and claim restitution of the sum paid.