Causa XXX

CASE XXX.

GRATIAN. A certain man, hindered by the great crowd of people, received his own son from baptism while believing that he was receiving another’s child. His wife, while craftily wishing to receive her own child, received another child whom the man adopted as his son; and a daughter is born to him from his wife, whom, while each was in the cradle, he gave to his adopted son, his wife’s spiritual son. After three years the wife dies, and the man who was her coparent secretly betrothed to himself the widow of his wife’s coparent; a little time passed, and another man publicly took her as wife. (Q. I.) It is asked whether one who received his own son from sacred baptism can render the marital due to his wife. (Q. II.) Second, whether betrothals are contracted between infants. (Q. III.) Third, whether spiritual or adopted children can be joined to natural children. (Q. IV.) Fourth, whether it is lawful for anyone to take the wife of his wife’s coparent. (Q. V.) Fifth, whether a clandestine betrothal prejudices a public one.