Causa XXXVI

GRATIAN. A certain man, without her father’s knowledge, enticed someone’s daughter with gifts and invited her to a banquet. When the banquet had ended, the young man violated the virgin. When this was discovered by her parents, the girl was handed over to the young man, and in the manner of those marrying she was dowered by the young man and publicly taken as wife. (Question I.) It is asked whether he committed ravishment. (Question II.) Second, whether the woman ravished can marry the ravisher when her father furnishes assent.