Index of Parts (as printed)

To the Benevolent Reader 6

CHAPTER I. Concerning the Nature of Matrimony 7

Article I. Notion of Matrimony 7

Article II. Concerning the Properties of Matrimony 10

1. Concerning the Unity of Matrimony 11

2. Concerning the Indissolubility of Matrimony 11

Article III. Concerning Matrimony as Sacrament 16

§ 1. Concerning the Matter, Form, and Minister

of the Sacrament of Matrimony 16

§ 2. Concerning the Subject of the Sacrament

of Matrimony 17

CHAPTER II. Concerning Matrimonial Consent in Particular 20

Article I. Concerning the Qualities of Matrimonial

Consent 20

Article II. Concerning Those Things Which Can Vitiate

Consent 22

§ 1. Defect of Reason and Ignorance 22

§ 2. Error 23

§ 3. Simulation 26

§ 4. Condition 27

§ 5. Force and Fear 29

CHAPTER III. Concerning the Preparation of Matrimony 32

Article I. Concerning Betrothals 32

Article II. Concerning the Office of the Parish Priest

before Matrimony is to be Contracted 37

§ 1. Examination of the Spouses 37

§ 2. Banns to be Published 39

CHAPTER IV. Concerning Impediments of Matrimony in General

and Concerning Merely Prohibiting Impediments

in Particular 44

Article I. Concerning Impediments in General 44

Article II. Merely Impeding Impediments 46

§ 1. Mixed Religion 46

§ 2. Simple Vow 51

§ 3. Legal Kinship 52

CHAPTER V. Concerning Diriment Impediments 54

I. What They Are 54

II. Division 54

Article I. Age 55

Article II. Impotence 56

Article III. Bond 61

Article IV. Disparity of Worship 62

Article V. Sacred Order 65

Article VI. Solemn Vow 67

Article VII. Raptus 68

Article VIII. Crime 69

Article IX. Consanguinity 73

Article X. Affinity 76

Article XI. Public Propriety 79

Article XII. Spiritual Kinship 81

Article XIII. Legal Kinship 82

CHAPTER VI. Concerning Dispensation from Impediments

of Matrimony 84

Article I. Concerning Matrimonial Dispensation

in General 84

Article II. Concerning the Authority of Dispensing 85

§ 1. Concerning the Power of the Roman Pontiff 85

§ 2. Concerning the Power of the Local Ordinary 87

§ 3. Concerning the Power of the Parish Priest or

Priest Assisting at Matrimony 90

§ 4. Concerning the Power of the Confessor 91

Article III. Concerning the Causes of Dispensation 91

Article IV. Concerning the Petition of Dispensation 93

Article V. Concerning the Execution of Dispensation 96

CHAPTER VII. Form of the Celebration of Matrimony 99

Article I. The Law Before the Code 99

Article II. The Form Prescribed by the Code in Ordinary

Cases 100

§ 1. Conditions for Validity 100

§ 2. Conditions for Liceity 104

Article III. The Form Permitted by the Code in

Extraordinary Cases 107

Article IV. Who Are Bound to Observe the Form of

the Code 109

Article V. Liturgical Prescriptions 111

Article VI. Concerning the Inscription of Celebrated

Matrimony 112

Article VII. Concerning Matrimony of Conscience 114

CHAPTER VIII. Convalidation of Matrimony 117

Article I. Concerning the Convalidation of Matrimony

in General 117

Article II. Concerning Simple Convalidation 118

§ 1. Convalidation of Matrimony Invalid from a

Diriment Impediment 118

§ 2. Convalidation of Matrimony Invalid from Defect

of Consent 121

§ 3. Convalidation of Matrimony Invalid from Defect

of Form 121

Article III. Concerning Sanation in the Root 121

CHAPTER IX. Concerning the Effects of Matrimony 125

Article I. Concerning the Rights and Duties of Spouses 125

Article II. Concerning the Legitimacy of Children 126

CHAPTER X. Concerning the Dissolution of Conjugal Life 130

Article I. Concerning the Separation of Spouses 131

Article II. Concerning Civil Divorce 134