document — Palmieri, On Christian Marriage
From the Council in Dalmatia, Legates of the Apostolic See Presiding, A.D. 1199
¶1673.
Canon VI. The most holy Roman Church, which is the mother and teacher of all churches, has decreed that no Christian presume to contract marriage up to the seventh degree of consanguinity ... Therefore by the present decree we establish, etc.
¶1674.
Canon X. We excommunicate all those who have dismissed their own wives, or henceforth shall dismiss them, without the judgment of the Church, until they return to them.