Article — Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions
Article II: Concerning Those Things Which Can Vitiate Consent
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- Matrimonial consent is essentially an act of the will; but, as is plain, it supposes a previous act of the intellect. For nothing is willed unless it is first known. Wherefore matrimonial consent can be impeded both by causes which stand in the way of the full knowledge of the mind, and by those which directly influence the will.
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On the part of the intellect, defect of reason, ignorance, and error can vitiate consent; on the part of the will, simulation, an appended condition, force or fear. Concerning each of such sources of invalid consent we must now treat.
Within this article
- § 1. Defect of Reason and Ignorancenn. 31–32
- § 2. Errornn. 33–40
- § 3. Simulationnn. 41–45
- § 4. Conditionnn. 46–51
- § 5. Force and Fearnn. 52–56