Chapter — Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Chapter IX. On the Impediments of Matrimony

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Preliminary note. Since it has already been sufficiently proved above that the faculty of establishing impediments of matrimony belongs to the Church, and that in Christian marriages exclusively, that is, with civil power entirely excluded, we can immediately approach the explanation of the individual impediments, dividing this whole chapter into four articles: 1. on the notion and division of impediments; 2. on impedient impediments; 3. on diriment impediments; 4. on dispensation from impediments.

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