Chapter — Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Chapter III. On Human Law
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The treatise on human laws pertains rather to ecclesiastical or civil law than to moral theology. Hence here we touch only the summary heads which are useful to know for a priest exercising the care of souls. But we subdivide this very long treatise into nine articles: 1. on the author of human law; 2. on its object; 3. on its subject; 4. on its promulgation and acceptance; 5. on its obligation; 6. on the manner of fulfilling this obligation; 7. on its interpretation; 8. on its cessation, where there will be discussion of dispensation, privilege, and custom; 9. on civil law and its moral obligation.
Within this chapter
- Article I. On the Author of Human Lawnn. 165–180
- Article II. On the Object of Human Lawnn. 181–184
- Article IV. On the Promulgation and Acceptance of Lawnn. 200–204
Article V. On the Obligation of Human Lawnn. 205–220
- § 1. On Penal Lawnn. 209–212
- § 2. On Invalidating Lawnn. 213–215
- § 3. On a Law Founded upon False Presumptionnn. 216–220
- Article VI. On the Mode of Fulfilling a Lawnn. 221–226
Article VII. On the Interpretation of Law. (Juridical Hermeneutics.)nn. 227–233
- § 1. On Simple Interpretationnn. 228–230
- § 2. On Epikeiann. 231–233
Article VIII. On the Cessation of Lawnn. 234–283
- § 1. On the Cessation of Obligation Because of Impotencenn. 235–237
- § 2. On the Cessation of the Obligation of Law by Dispensationnn. 238–262
- § 3. On the Cessation of the Obligation of Law by Privilegenn. 263–268
- § 4. On the Cessation of the Law Itself by Revocation and by the Cessation of the Total Endnn. 269–271
- § 5. On the cessation of law through customnn. 272–283