Chapter — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Chapter XII: Of Second Nuptials
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
Can. 1142.
Although chaste widowhood is more honorable, nevertheless second and further nuptials are valid and licit, with the prescription of can. 1069, Sec. 2 remaining firm.
Licet casta viduitas honorabilior sit, secundae tamen et ulteriores nuptiae validae et licitae sunt, firmo praescripto can. 1069, § 2.
Can. 1143.
A woman to whom the solemn blessing has once been given cannot receive it again in subsequent nuptials.
Mulier cui semel benedictio sollemnis data sit, nequit in subsequentibus nuptiis eam iterum accipere.