document — Palmieri, On Christian Marriage
From the Council of Soissons, whose Decrees Were Published Also with the Consent of Prince Pepin and by the Counsel of the Nobles of the Franks, as Is Said in Chapter X, A.D. 744
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Canon IX. We establish that no lay man shall have a woman consecrated to God as wife, nor his own relative, nor, while the husband is living, shall another accept his wife; because a husband ought not to dismiss his wife, except when the cause of fornication has been detected.