Chapter II: On Injuries in the Goods of Marriage

382. The goods of marriage, formally considered and in the strict sense, are spouse and children. In these someone can suffer injury insofar as harm is brought to their chastity:

1. in a spouse indeed through adultery, which is defined as the violation of another's bed, and is carnal copula with the spouse of another;

2. in one's girls, of whom one has custody, through stuprum strictly so called, which is the illicit defloration of a virgin living under paternal authority. Similarly

3. through stuprum broadly so called, which is carnal copula with an unmarried woman in some way unwilling, or the oppression of any honorable woman, even not a virgin or not a minor: injury can be inflicted on this woman by reason of future marriage and by reason of offspring perhaps to be born.

These sins, as being sins of lust, are explained in the treatise on chastity; yet because they contain a certain injustice, under this respect they are considered in the present place in order to restitution.