Section — Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884)
§ IV. On Interdicted Persons and Prodigals
771.
- Interdicted persons are those who by sentence of the judge are declared incapable of exercising civil acts because of a state of weakness, or dementia, or madness. Moreover, someone is designated for them as tutor, and all their acts are void by law; nevertheless they are not to be esteemed absolutely null before the sentence of the judge. Interdiction ceases when the cause ceases; the cessation of which must be declared by the judge, so that the interdicted person may again be able to act civilly. Prodigals juridically denounced are incapable of entering certain contracts determined by law, without the assistance of a counselor constituted by the judge.
771.
Moreover, the nullity of contracts entered by interdicted persons and prodigals can indeed be opposed by them or by those conducting their cause, but not by those who contracted with them, just as was said concerning minors.