Disputation — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Disputation III: On Promise
AFTER dominion has been acquired, the first species of contracting is Promise, which indeed lays an obligation on one part; it suffers, however, before acceptance, a free faculty of revoking. One is external: another internal. One simple, another also solemn; Promises are also sometimes made for a shameful cause: how all these stand, is to be settled here in a few words.
POST acquisitum dominium prima contrahendi species est Promissio, ponens quidem obligationem in una parte, patitur tamen, ante acceptationem, liberam revocandi facultatem. Alia est externa: alia interna. Alia simplex, alia quoque sollemnis; solent etiam aliquando fieri Promissiones ob turpem causam: quomodo vero hae omnes stent, paucis hic absolvendum.
Within this disputation
- Question I: What a promise is, and how it differs from a donation
- Question II: Whether a simple promise, once accepted, binds in justice
- Question III: Whether a merely internal promise, made to a man, binds
- Question IV: Whether an external promise binds before it is accepted
- Question V: Whether a promise binds when made for a base cause