Causa XXXII

CASE XXXII.

GRATIAN. A certain man, when he did not have a wife, joined to himself in marriage a certain prostitute who was sterile, the granddaughter of a freeborn man and the daughter of an estate-bound tenant. When her father wished to hand her over to another man, her grandfather joined her to this man solely on account of incontinence. Then this man, moved by repentance, began to seek children for himself from his own female slave. Afterward, having been convicted and punished for adultery, he asked a certain man to violate his wife by force, so that he might thereby be able to put her away. When this had been done, he joined a certain unbelieving woman to himself, yet under the condition that she would pass to the Christian religion. (Q. I.) Here it is asked first whether a prostitute is lawfully taken as wife. (Q. II.) Second, whether a woman who is taken on account of incontinence is to be called a wife. (Q. III.) Third, whose decision a woman is to follow: that of her free grandfather or that of her estate-bound father. (Q. IV.) Fourth, whether, while his wife is living, it is lawful for someone to seek children from a female slave. (Q. V.) Fifth, whether a woman who suffers force is proved to lose her chastity. (Q. VI.) Sixth, whether an adulterous man can put away an adulterous wife. (Q. VII.) Seventh, whether, while the woman put away is living, he can receive another. (Q. VIII.) Eighth, whether it is lawful for one of the faithful to take an unbelieving woman as wife under the aforesaid condition.