Section — Konings, Theologia Moralis
§ III. What Can Be Donated
¶884.
- Generally speaking, all goods can be donated, i.e. things or rights of the donor.
It is said: generally speaking; for in certain hypotheses they are not valid, or at least not licit, matter of donation; and thus:
In the hypothesis that the donor has children, that which is required for their necessary sustenance will be illicit matter of donation by natural right.
In the hypothesis that the donor is a married man, the dowry of the wife will not be apt matter of donation. Cf. n. 605.
In the hypothesis that the donor is unequal to paying his debts, none of his goods will be apt matter of donation, since no one, as they say, can be liberal unless he has been freed. Cf. n. 881, 1), e).