index — Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Volume II: Alphabetical Index of Matters
Alphabetical Index of Matters
which are found in the second volume of the Manual of Moral Theology.
The pages are not indicated, but the marginal numbers.
A
Inordinate self-abjection is a vice opposed to humility, 715.
Taking another's property, when it is lawful, 86 sq.
Abortion, what it is, 137; to procure abortion directly and indirectly, 140 sqq.; penalties against those procuring abortion, 142; the mother herself incurs these penalties, ib.
Absence of canons from choir, 366.
Abstinence, insofar as it is a special virtue, 649; its act is fasting, 650; law of abstinence from the eating of meat, 663; excusing causes, 664; the vice opposed to abstinence, namely gluttony, 667.
Academic duels are gravely prohibited and punished, 126.
Acatholics, see Heretics.
Acceleration of birth, when it is lawful, 139.
Acceptance necessary in a contract of promise, 267.
Accession, what it is as a mode of acquiring dominion, 56.
Accuser, his obligations and sins, 159.
Accused, see Defendant.
Acquisition of dominion, 39.
Shares and bonds, it is lawful to buy them, provided illicit stock-exchange speculations are avoided, 289.
Plaintiff, see Accuser.
Fat is lawful on days of abstinence, 663.
Adjunction as a mode of acquiring dominion, 56.
Adjuration, what it is, 460; its divisions, 461; when clothed with the due conditions, it is a lawful and honorable act of the virtue of religion, 462. Adjuration of a demon, see Exorcism.
Adoration, what it is, 383; its divisions, 384; its obligation, 385; to whom the worship of latria is to be shown, 386; to whom the worship of dulia is owed, 387; whether the cross is to be adored, 386.
Flattery is a vice opposed to the virtue of affability, 613.
Adultery, what it is, 703; it injures chastity and justice, ib.; obligation of restitution arising from adultery, 151 sq.
Advertence for prayer, 354; for Mass, 480.
Advocate, his obligations and sins, 162; whether he can act as advocate in obtaining civil divorce, 162.
Sick person, see Illness.
Equity, see Epikeia.
Equivocation, what it is and when it is lawful, 171.
Age for hearing obligatory Mass, 476; for observing abstinence from forbidden foods, 663; for observing the ecclesiastical fast, 660.
Affability is a special virtue pertaining to the virtue of justice, 612; its diverse acts, ib.; opposed vices, 613.
Unjust aggressor can be killed with the moderation of blameless defense, 120 sqq., and indeed for preserving life, chastity, considerable fortune, and reputation, ib.
A slap received does not give the right to kill the striker, 119.
Alcoholism, its remedies, 673.
Aleatory contracts, 311 sqq.
Alluvion as a mode of acquiring dominion, 56.
Ambiguity, what it is and when it is lawful, 171.
Ambition, insofar as it is opposed to magnanimity, 639.
The insane are capable of dominion, 14.
Love owed between parents and children, superiors and subjects, etc., 580 sqq.
Amphibology, what it is and when it is lawful, 171.
To amputate a bodily member is not lawful except for the sake of health, 116. See Mutilation of oneself.
Anatocism is lawful, 288.
Maidservant, see Servants.
Souls detained in purgatory, whether they can pray, 334; whether we can pray to them, 344.
Animals are distinguished as wild, tamed, and domestic, 41; occupation of animals, ib., see also Hunting; whose flesh may be eaten on days of abstinence, 655; what kind of sin is the shameful touching of animals, 694; what kind of sin is the cruel tormenting of animals, 14.
Anticipation of Matins and Lauds, from what hour it is lawful, 373.
- of the meal on fast days, 656.
Free choice, see Liberty.
Savings banks, it is lawful to place money in them in order to obtain legitimate interest, 289.
The notory art is a vain observance, 515.
Less honorable and shameful looks, what kind of sin they are, 695.
Insurance, when this contract is just, 312; frauds committed in insurance, ib.
Astrology is illicit, 509.
Ecclesiastical asylum, what it is, 549.
Attention, what attention is necessary for prayer, 354; controversy concerning the necessity of internal attention, 355; doctrine of St. Thomas concerning the necessity of attention, 359. Cf. also Advertence.
Author, his dominion over the products of his intellect, 8; how civil laws concerning this matter oblige, 9.
Public auction, see Sale by auction.
Fowling, see Hunting.
Daring, insofar as it is a vice opposed to fortitude, 638.
Aureole of the saints, to whom it is given and what it is, 624.
Driver, what he can do on feast days, 497.
Avarice is opposed to the virtue of liberality, 616.
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Bank, see Money-changer's table.
Barbers, whether they can labor on feast days, 497.
War, what it is, 129; what is required for a lawful war, 130; obligations of private persons during war, ib.
Beneficed cleric, his obligations concerning benefice revenues, 36; he is bound to restore the fruits of the benefice on account of neglect of the Divine Office, 364; indeed, he can be deprived of his benefice, ib.; what calendar he must use, 369.
Benefice, how an unjust collator of benefices sins and is obliged to restitution, 99.
- benefit of inventory, 278.
Bestiality, what it is, 707.
Blasphemy, what it is, 529; of how many kinds it is, 530; its malice, 531; practical rules for discerning blasphemy, 532; remedies against it, 533.
Various goods, their kinds, 12; whether in extreme necessity it is lawful to take great goods belonging to another, 87; whether it is lawful to kill a thief in order to recover goods of great value, 120; the goods of private persons are inviolable in war, 47; for the goods of wives, children of families, and clerics, see Dominion.
Ecclesiastical goods, how they are to be administered, 38.
Good faith, see Prescription, Possessor.
Breviary, see Divine Office.
Stock-exchange speculations, how they are lawful, 321.
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Calendar to be followed in recitation of the Divine Office, 369.
Calumny, what it is, 188; its malice, 189 sq.; obligations of the calumniator, 197.
Exchange, what it is, 291.
Canons, their obligation of reciting the Divine Office in choir, 366; when they lose the "daily distributions," ib.
Becoming chant greatly serves divine worship in ecclesiastical functions, 464.
Prison, whether it is lawful to break it, deceive the guard, and flee from it, 164. Cf. also Defendant.
Carnal motions, what they are, 689; how they are to be resisted, 690.
Meats forbidden on days of fasting and abstinence, 655; when it is lawful to eat meat several times on fast days, 654; what constitutes grave matter in the prohibited eating of meat, 663; who are dispensed for the eating of meat, 664.
Chastity is a special virtue, 674; distinctions, 675; excellence and utility of chastity, 676; the opposed vice, namely lust, 680 sqq.; a vow of chastity is reserved, 423.
Castration of boys, whether it is lawful, 115.
Castrensian goods of sons, 27.
Cause exempting and excusing from law, see Excuse.
- pious cause in a testament, 277.
Census contract, what it is, 313.
Little meal permitted on fast days, 656; quantity and quality of foods, ib.; on certain vigils a larger little meal is permitted, ib.
Cessation of a law, 234 sqq.; of a custom, 282; of a vow, 409 sqq.
- from labor, see Strike.
Cession of goods, what it is, 244; it is judicial or extrajudicial, ib.; of itself it does not extinguish the obligation of restitution, 247; manner of this restitution, 232, 236.
Chloroform, see Narcotic remedies.
Choral recitation of the Divine Office imposed upon canons, 366, and upon certain regulars, 367; concerning due order, place, posture, and time, 371; the integrity of the Office is by no means injured if someone in choir sings alternately or is occupied with necessary offices of the choir, 374.
Dances, when they are illicit, 697.
Clemency is indeed closely related to meekness, but is not the same, 710; opposed to it are cruelty by defect and excessive mildness by excess, ib.
Cleric, concerning the exercise of dominion, 36 sqq.; the privileges of clerics of canon, forum, and immunity, 541 sqq.
Coaction, see Violence.
Codicil of a testament, what it is, 275.
Cemetery, when it is polluted, 545 sq.; Mass can be said in its chapels, 482.
Supper, see Little meal.
Evening collation, see Little meal.
Lustful conversations, what kind of sin they are, 696.
Colorable title, what it is, 413.
Courtesy is the same as the virtue of affability, 612.
Public elections, see Deputies.
Commixture as a title of acquiring dominion, 56.
Commodatum is a gratuitous contract, 283.
Modification of a last will, 279; by whom commutation of a vow can be made, 430; commutation of an oath, 454.
Occult compensation, what it is and when it is lawful, 88 sq.; when compensation is a cause excusing from restitution, 241.
Composition granted by the Supreme Pontiff excuses from restitution, 242.
Preacher, whether it is an obligation to attend a sermon, 470.
Concubinage, its malice, 698.
Competitive examination for obtaining an ecclesiastical benefice, what right it bestows and how violation of that right induces an obligation of restitution, 99.
Condition, how a contract entered under a suspensive, resolutory, or shameful condition obliges, 261 and 253.
Express or tacit remission by the creditor excuses from making restitution, 241.
Confessor, when he is bound to repair damage which he caused by erring in confession, 110; restitution made through the assistance of the confessor, 239.
Confession, whether it can be instituted during a Mass which must be heard from precept, 481.
Spouse, see Wife, Husband.
Consent as an unjust cause of damage, 105; consent required in contracts and its qualities and defects, 255 sqq.
Counsel as a cause of restitution, 102.
Associations of workers, how they are to be fostered, 5.
Constancy as a special virtue which is almost similar to perseverance, 637.
One counseling unjust damage, how he is obliged to restitution, 102; whether it is lawful to counsel a lesser evil, 103; what obligation is induced by evil counsel which has indeed been revoked, but ineffectively, ib.; one counseling certain crimes is punished with a censure.
Consumable things, what they are, 12.
Contemplation, insofar as it is distinct from meditation, 336.
Contempt of a precept or of one commanding, 579.
Continence, how it is related to temperance, 708.
Contract, what it is, 249; of how many kinds it is, 250; whether statutes of civil law concerning contracts oblige in conscience, 251; conditions required for a contract, 252 sqq.; how a shameful contract obliges in conscience, 253; persons capable of contracting, 254; legitimate consent, 255; error and fraud in a contract, 257; external form of contracts, 259; a contract under a condition, 261, under a mode, 262, under a day, 263, under a demonstration, 264; an oath added to a contract, 265; gratuitous contracts, 267 sqq.; onerous contracts, 290 sqq.; aleatory contracts, 311 sqq.
Contumely, what it is, 183; its malice, 184; when contumely must be patiently tolerated, 186.
- against God, see Blasphemy.
Conventional penalty, see Penalty; conventional price, see Price.
Abusive speech, what it is, 183.
Positive and negative cooperation in unjust damage, how it obliges to restitution, 100 sqq.
Cook, what labors he can perform on feast days, 496.
Puncturing of the heart is not to be done after death which is perhaps doubtful, 132.
Corruption of words in the recitation of the Divine Office, 374.
Craniotomy, what it is, 133; it is gravely illicit, 134; whether physicians can be left in good faith concerning its morality, 136; whether it is to be equated with abortion as regards ecclesiastical penalties, 143.
Crime, undue disclosure of a hidden crime is the sin of defamation, 187; not even a notorious crime may be disclosed without sufficient reason, 192.
Cruelty is a vice opposed to the virtue of clemency, 710; cruelty toward animals, 14.
Bloody punishment (killing), to whom it is lawful, 118; bloody defense against an unjust aggressor of life, 120, of fortune, 121, of chastity, 122, of reputation, 123.
Cross of Christ, whether it is to be adored, 386; positive precepts concerning the worship of the cross of Christ, ib.
Theological and juridical fault in damage, 92 sqq.
Worship of God is the object of the virtue of religion, 325; what the worship of latria, hyperdulia, and dulia is, 384; to whom they are to be shown, 385 sqq.; worship to be shown to the cross, 386, to images and relics, 387.
Curiosity is opposed to the virtue of studiousness and is of itself a venial sin, 716.
Keepers of tolls, forests, fields, etc., how they are bound to repair damage if they do not denounce those causing damage, 110.
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Unjust damage, what it is, 91; its divisions, 92; when an obligation of restitution arises from it, 93; whether damage committed with slight theological fault induces an obligation of restitution, 97; if juridical fault alone is present, 98; obligations arising from cooperation in damage, 100, 223 sqq.; from doubtful damage, 226.
Emergent damage is a title for receiving interest, 287.
Contracted debts, whether they can be extinguished by prescription with negative good faith, 62; whether they are extinguished by cession of goods, 247; in what order they are to be paid, 236.
Ecclesiastical tithes are legitimately to be paid, 499; those defrauding them commit a sin both against religion and against justice, ib.
Declaration, see Interpretation.
Natural defects, whether manifesting them is defamation, 191; defects of a thing to be sold which must be manifested, 292.
Defloration of a virgin, see Stuprum.
Defrauding taxes, 499; the fare of a public vehicle, 85.
The deceased, to injure their reputation is detraction, 194; when the Office of the Dead is to be recited, 361. See also Souls in purgatory.
Venereal pleasure, what it is, 681; directly willed is a mortal sin in its whole genus, 682; indirectly willed admits slightness of matter, 683; how venereal pleasure is specified, 686; what resistance is necessary, 687.
Diminution of weight or measure causing an obligation of restitution, 294.
Judicial and evangelical denunciation, what it is, 159.
Deposit is a gratuitous contract, 283; obligations of the depositary, ib.
Deputies, whether the election of an evil deputy induces an obligation of repairing damage, 105, 603; how deputies themselves who enact depraved laws are bound to restore damage thence arising, ib.; whether for a most grave cause it is lawful to elect an evil deputy, 604.
Abandoned things, what they are and to whom they belong, 39 sqq.
Derogation of a law, what it is and how it occurs, 270.
Deserter from military service, how he sins, 451.
Desire for death, sometimes lawful, sometimes illicit, 116; lustful desire, its specific malice, 689.
Detraction, what it is, 188; its malice, 189; hearing it, 191; its reparation, 196 sq.
Devotion, its diverse acceptations, 328; insofar as it is an act of the virtue of religion, ib.; causes of devotion, 329; its effects, 330.
The devil cannot properly pray, 334; how he is to be treated in exorcism, 463; how he intervenes in superstition, 501, in spiritism, 523, in divination, 506; he cannot certainly know contingent future things or the secrets of hearts, ib.
Defamation, what it is, 187; divisions, 188; its malice, 189; rules for judging the gravity of defamation, 191; those cooperating in defamation, 195; obligations of the defamer, 196; causes excusing from the reparation of reputation, 198.
Delay of an act of faith, hope, or charity, see the individual virtues; delay of restitution, how it is sinful, 237; delay in fulfilling a vow, 406.
Disciple, his obligations toward his teacher, 598; his specific sins, ib.
Dispensation from a promissory oath, 428, 453.
from observance of the Lord's day, 498.
from recitation of the Divine Office, 380.
from a vow, 420; vows which can be dispensed by the Supreme Pontiff alone, 422 sq.; by a bishop, 424; by regular confessors, 425.
in fasting and abstinence, 664.
Venereal distillation, 705.
Voluntary distraction in prayer is a sin, 354 sqq.; whether it destroys the essence of prayer, 355; it does not prevent satisfaction by reciting the Office, 356.
Daily distributions of canons, when they are lost, 366.
Divination, what it is, 506; its divisions, 507; its moral malice, 511.
Primitive division of goods, how it was made, 4.
Disclosure of a notorious crime, how it is illicit, 193.
Fraud, how it vitiates a contract, 257.
The Lord's day is to be sanctified by a law not only ecclesiastical but also divine, 465; who are bound by this law, 467; what things are commanded by this law, 469; utility of this precept well observed, 471 sqq.
Dominion, what it is, 3; its divisions, ib.; origin and lawfulness of private dominion, 4; enemies of private dominion, 5; how dominion over the goods of body and soul belongs to man, 6, over his reputation, 7, over the products of intellect and industry, 8, over another man, 11; subject of dominion, 13;
dominion of spouses, 15 sqq.; dominion of children of families, 26 sqq.; dominion of clerics, 36; the diverse modes of acquiring dominion are either original or derivative, 39; derivative modes are either legal or conventional, ib.; conventional modes are occupation, invention, accession, and prescription, ib. and sqq.
Donation, what it is, 270; its divisions, ib.; what is required for the validity of a donation, 271; revocation, ib.; donation mortis causa, 272; donation by testament, see Testament; presumed donation, 280.
Doubt, obligations of a possessor of doubtful faith, 221; of a doubtful damager, 148 and 226; doubt concerning the form or matter of sacraments, see the individual sacraments.
Duel, what it is, 124; academic duel, ib.; a duel undertaken by private authority is gravely illicit, 125; ecclesiastical penalties against a duel, 126; societies fostering duels, 127; obligation of restitution arising from a duel, 128.
Dulia, what it is, 383 sq.
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Drunkenness, what it is, 669; its malice, 670; its remedies, 673.
A church as a temple is execrated and polluted, 545.
Ecclesiastical goods, see Goods.
Ectopic fetus, 146.
Education of children, what obligations it imposes upon parents, 589.
Election of an unworthy deputy, what kind of sin it is, 603 sqq.
Electuaries do not break the ecclesiastical fast, 662.
Emancipation of children of families, how it occurs, 26; of women, how it is lawful, 593.
Embryotomy is illicit, 133.
Purchase, see Sale.
Epikeia is joined either to legal justice or to a certain natural justice, 617; the virtue of equity is the execution of the virtue of gnome, 619.
Bishop, his power of dispensing in vows, 425; in observance of the Lord's day, 498; in fasting and abstinence, 664.
To read another's letter illegitimately, what kind of sin it is, 181.
Error, damage committed from error, 96; how substantial and accidental error affects the validity of a contract, 257; how it affects the validity of a vow, 396; the validity of an oath, 453; an error in the recitation of the Office is corrected where it is detected, 370.
Foodstuffs in petty domestic thefts, when they constitute grave matter, 83.
Eunuch, see Castration.
Euthanasia, whether it is lawful, 673.
Eutrapely, what it is, 317.
Excommunicated person, it is lawful to pray for the excommunicated, 341.
Excuse from restitution, 241 sqq.; from Sunday Mass, 486 sqq.; from festive rest, 495; from fasting and abstinence, 664 sqq.
Artists employing a naked person as a model (commonly Modell), 695.
One giving a depraved example, how he is bound to restitution, 103.
Exemption from making restitution, 241 sqq.; those violating the exemption of clerics commit sacrilege, 540.
Disinheritance, how it is lawful or illicit, 281.
Exorcism is either properly or broadly so called, 463; a public exorcism cannot be performed without the permission of the Ordinary, ib.; what effect it produces, ib.
Expenses are distinguished as necessary, useful, and pleasurable, 208; by whom expenses made upon another's thing are to be borne, 213 sqq.
Exposition of sacred images and relics, 387.
External attention required for prayer, 355.
F
Reputation, what it is, 187; how man has dominion over his own reputation, 7; even the deceased retain a right to a good reputation, 194; injury to reputation, 187; see also Defamation.
Family wage, whether it is owed to workers, 310.
Servants, petty thefts committed in the master's goods, 83; when they can compensate themselves occultly, 90; when they are bound from negative cooperation to compensate the master's damage, 109; they are bound to show obedience, reverence, and faithful service to masters, 596; when they are excused from festive rest, 496, from the law of fasting and abstinence, 663; how they can satisfy the Sunday precept in the master's private oratory, 485.
Fools, see The insane.
Woman, see Women.
Interest, what it is, 285; causes legitimating it, 287.
Feasts, their observance, 465 sqq.
Fetishism, 705.
Fiction in contracts, 257; in a vow, 394; in an oath, 444, 457.
Good faith in prescription, 62; in the possessor of another's thing, 209.
Confidence is an effect of the gift of fortitude, 621.
Sons, what dominion they have, 26 sqq.; how those retaining wages sin, 28; concerning domestic thefts, 83; in the choice of a state they are not bound to obey parents, 583; how their vows can be invalidated by parents, 417; their obligations toward parents, 589; legitimate sons, see Illegitimate children.
Liquid does not break the fast, 662.
Fetus, animated or inanimate, 136; it is never lawful directly to kill a fetus, 139; ectopic fetuses, 146.
Forensic works, prohibited on Sundays and feast days, 493; performed in a church, they constitute local sacrilege, 546.
Fornication, what it is, 698; its malice, ib.; when an obligation of repairing damage arises from it, 148 sqq.
Fortitude as a condition of every virtue, 620; as a special virtue, 621; as a gift of the Holy Spirit, ib.; acts of fortitude, 622; its parts, 625; opposed vices, 638.
Forum: those violating the privilege of forum are excommunicated, 542.
Fraud or deceit in contracts, 257, 293, 312, 318.
Fruits of a thing are distinguished as natural, industrial, mixed, and civil, 208; restitution of fruits to be made by a possessor in good faith, 213, by a possessor in bad faith, 218; fruits of an ecclesiastical benefice: how they are to be disposed of, 37; whether a cleric is bound to restore superfluous fruits badly employed, ib.; to what restitution a beneficed cleric not reciting the Divine Office is bound, 364, a canon not assisting in choir, 366.
Morning morsel on fast days, 657.
Flight of a prisoner from prison, 164; flight from occasion in sins of lust, 687.
Theft, what it is, 78; matter absolutely and relatively grave in theft, 80; when petty thefts are a mortal sin, 82; thefts of servants, 83; of wives, ib.; of sons of families, ib.; theft in public goods, 84; when the taking of another's thing is not theft, 84 sqq.; when sacred theft is sacrilege, 548, 554.
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Lustful joy, 688.
Management of affairs as a contract, 48, 283.
Gnome as a potential part of prudence, 619.
Gratitude, when it is a special virtue, 605; its offices, 606; its necessity and beauty, 607; its qualities, 608; the opposed vice, namely ingratitude, 609.
Gluttony insofar as it is opposed to the virtue of abstinence, 667.
H
Heretic: how heretics and their descendants are irregular, 623.
Inheritance: notion, 273; acceptance under benefit of inventory, 278.
Heir, who is called universal, intestate, necessary, or arbitrary, 273; his obligations and rights, 278, 282.
Master: his faculty of invalidating the vows of servants, 419; his obligations toward subjects, 595.
Homicide: its malice, 131; committed in a sacred place, it is sacrilege, 546.
Honesty as an integral part of temperance and the guardian of chastity, 646.
Honor, what it is, 182; its comparison with reverence, praise, and glory, ib.; it is injured through contumely, 183; the malice of contumely, 184; restitution of honor, 185; it cannot be repaired by the payment of money, ib.
Hour of dinner and collation on fast days, 654; how long dinner can last and be interrupted, ib.
Canonical Hours, see Divine Office.
Guests, when they satisfy the precept of Mass in a private oratory, 485.
Humility, what it is, 712; its necessity, 713; degrees and acts, 714; opposed vices, 715.
Hyperdulia, what it is, 384.
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Idolatry, what it is, 502; divisions, 503; its moral malice, 504.
Fast is taken in a fourfold sense, 650; what an ecclesiastical fast is, ib.; in what its essence consists, 653; its excellence, 651; evolution of the law of fasting, ib. and 652; on dinner on fast days, 654; on the evening collation, 656; on the morning morsel, 657; time of fasting, 658; persons bound to fast, 660; whether this obligation is grave, 661; on liquid on fast days, 662; causes excusing from fasting, 664; who can dispense from the law of fasting, ib.
Sluggishness as a vice opposed to fortitude, 638.
Illegitimate children: their rights and obligations as regards dominion, 26; their obligations toward parents, 586.
Images of saints, how they can be venerated, 387.
Ecclesiastical immunity: its violation is sacrilege, 543.
Impatience as a vice opposed to the virtue of patience, 641.
Those impeding someone from attaining some good, when they are bound to restitution, 94.
Inability, what kind excuses from restitution, 242, 243, from the ecclesiastical fast, 665.
Imprecation, see Curse.
Minors before puberty, who are so considered, 26.
Immodesty, see Looks, Kisses, Conversations, Immodest touches.
Vainglory insofar as it is opposed to magnanimity, 639.
Incest, what it is and what malice it contains, 701.
Inconstancy is opposed to prudence, 634, and to perseverance, 642.
Unworthy administration of the sacraments, what kind of sin it is, 552; unworthy reception of the sacraments is sacrilege, ib.
Illness, what kind excuses from hearing prescribed Mass, 486, from the ecclesiastical fast, 665.
Informal contract, whether it is valid, 259; informal testament, 277.
Ingratitude, material and formal, what kind of sin it is and how it is committed, 609.
Injustice, see Justice.
Innocent person: his unjust killing, 131; his unjust condemnation, 158.
Innominate contracts, 250.
Disobedience, see Obedience.
Inquiry necessary for finding the owner of a lost thing, 48; in a case of doubtful possession, 221.
Insinuation, what it is in the contract of donation, 271.
Instruction, see Education.
Intemperance, see Temperance.
Compensation (interesse), see Interest.
Interpretation of vows, 408; of an oath, 454.
Interruption of the Divine Office, 375.
Inventory: to accept an inheritance under benefit of inventory, 278.
Finder of a lost thing, to what he is bound by natural law, 48, by certain civil laws, 50 sqq.; inventor of some industrial work, what rights he has in the offspring of his own ingenuity, 8.
Invocation of saints, 344, of infants who died after baptism, ib., of souls in purgatory, ib.; whether invocation of saints is not only lawful but also necessary, 345.
Irony is a species of lie, 167.
Irreligiosity, what it is, 500.
Irreverence, see Reverence.
Mockery is reduced to contumely, 184; sometimes it is an act of the virtue of eutrapely, ib.
Invalidation of a vow, what it is, 411; who can invalidate vows directly and who indirectly, 416 sq.; effects of invalidation, both direct and indirect, 412 sq.; invalidation of an oath, 454; invalidation of a contract, 251.
One commanding, see Command.
Judge: his necessary knowledge, 153; he is bound to judge according to just laws, ib.; whether he is bound to restitution if he unlawfully absolves a defendant from paying a fine, ib.; whether he can judge according to manifestly unjust laws, 154; in doubt the judge must favor the defendant, 156; he cannot lawfully accept gifts from litigants, 157; whether he is always bound to judge according to the allegations of witnesses, 158.
Rash judgment, what it is, 199; its malice, 200; how its gravity is to be judged in practice, 201; what kind of sin a defect of judgment in an oath is, 458.
Swearing, see Oath.
Jurors, see Judge.
Right: its diverse acceptations, 1; its relation to law, ib.; every right is derived from the eternal law, ib.; divisions, 2; what the law of nations is, ib. and 4; object of right, 6; the right of making a testament is indeed founded upon natural law, but is determined by civil law, 274.
Meat broth, prohibited on days of abstinence, 663.
Oath: its notion, 437; divisions, 438; its honesty, 439; conditions required for a valid and lawful oath, 441 sq.; obligation of an oath, 448; whether a vow obliges more than an oath, ib.; obligation of an oath of fidelity, 451; interpretation, 453; cessation of a promissory oath, 454; who are prohibited from swearing, 455; violation of an oath, 456; an oath added to a contract, 265.
Command, what it is and how it differs from a mandate, 101; how it induces the obligation of repairing damage caused, ib.
Justice, what it is, 70; its subjective parts, 71; its integral parts, 72; its potential parts, 73; its violation is a mortal sin from its genus, 74; when its violation induces the obligation of restitution, 203; justice as a companion of an oath, 445.
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Labor, what kind is prohibited on feast days, 492; what kind excuses from fasting, 665.
Nursing a child, what kind of obligation it is for a mother, 588.
Dairy products on days of fasting and abstinence, 654.
Lard: its use on days of abstinence, 663.
Latria, to whom it is to be shown, 386.
Legal justice, 71; a legal premium is a title for receiving interest, 288; legal price, 296.
Legacy is either strictly so called or a fideicommissum, 275; whether legacies made for pious causes in an informal testament oblige in conscience, 277.
Legitimate portion of heirs, see Legitimate portion.
Excessive mildness is opposed to the virtue of clemency, 710.
Liberality as a special virtue, 615; opposed vices, 616.
Freedom of choosing a state of life, 585.
Auction, see Sale at auction.
Cutting wood as regards theft, 84.
Liquid, what kind is permitted on fast days, 662.
Litanies, whether they are to be recited in the Divine Office, 361; litanies approved for liturgical offices, 381.
Litigation: its notion, 614.
Letters: whether and how one reading another's letters sins, 181.
Hiring: what a contract of hiring is, 303; hiring of things, of a work to be done, and of labor, 304; the proper nature of the hiring of labor, ib.; obligations of workers, 306, of masters, 305.
Longanimity: its relation to patience, 635.
Lottery, when it is lawful, 320.
Gain acquired and retained by sons of families, how it is sinful, 28; gain ceasing is a title for receiving interest, 287.
Play, what it is, 316; morality of recreational play, 317; contracts of play, 318; games prohibited by ecclesiastical law, 319.
Lust is taken in a broad and a strict sense, 681; lust strictly taken and directly voluntary is a mortal sin from its whole genus, 682; indirectly voluntary lust admits slightness of matter, 683; effects of lust, 684; its internal sins, 685 sqq., external sins, 690 sqq.; sacrilegious lust, see Sacrilege.
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Working with a typewriter, whether it is a servile work, 490.
Magic, what it is, 517; white magic is lawful, black magic unlawful, 518.
Teacher: his obligations, 597.
Magnanimity is a special virtue, 626; its relation to humility, 628; its properties, 629; its opposed vices, 639.
Magnetism, what it is and its morality, 519.
Magnificence is a special virtue annexed to fortitude, 630 sq.; its relation to liberality, 632; its opposed vices, 640.
Person of full age, who is such, 26; his right to the wage of his labor, 28.
Bad faith impedes prescription, 62; a possessor in bad faith and his obligations, 216 sqq.
Curse, what it is and when it is unlawful, 534.
Malefactors can lawfully be killed and punished corporally by public authority, 118.
Malefice contains a twofold malice, namely, against religion and against charity, 518.
Mandate insofar as it causes unjust damage, 101; insofar as it is a gratuitous contract, 283.
One revealing another's delict, 192; one not revealing it is sometimes an unjust cooperator, 109.
Meekness is a virtue annexed to temperance, 709; sluggishness and irascibility are opposed to it, ib.
Hand: a gift from the hand in simony, 556; to lay violent hands upon a cleric, 541.
Husband: his power of administering the goods of the family, 16; of invalidating the vows of his wife and children, 417 sqq.; his obligations and rights, 591.
Martyrdom: what is required for it, 623; its efficacy and effects, 624; the aureole granted to martyrs, ib.
Masochism, 707.
Masturbation, see Pollution.
Mother: her obligations toward her offspring, 587 sqq.; one procuring an abortion is excommunicated, 142.
Matter in theft is taken in a twofold sense, 80.
Matins: what obligation there is to recite it privately or chorally before the celebration of Mass, 373.
Physician is bound by an entrusted secret, 175.
Lie, what it is, 166; its divisions, 167; its malice, 169.
Mendicants, when they are excused from the law of fasting and abstinence, 665.
Money-changing table: it is lawful to place money there to obtain interest either from bonds or from shares, 289.
Commerce, what kind is prohibited on feast days, 493.
Wages of workers are either individual or familial, 308; what wage is just, ib.
Prostitution is reduced to fornication, 698; whether a woman can retain the price obtained from prostitution, 253.
Merchandise in sale, 292.
Fear, how it influences the validity of contracts, 258; a vow, 397; an oath, 453.
Military persons cannot accept a duel to preserve honor, 123; their obligations and rights in war, 127; as regards taking booty, 47; as regards an oath of fidelity, 451.
Minor-aged person as regards dominion of things and his own wage, 28 sqq.; as regards invalidation of his vows, 419; as regards the faculty of entering contracts, 254; their goods are customarily imprescriptible, 56.
Mass to be heard by the faithful: gravity of this precept, 476; who are bound to observe it, ib.; bodily presence is required, 477, during the whole Mass, 478; what matter is slight, ib.; whether satisfaction can be made through parts of several Masses, 479; religious assistance is required, 480, namely, due intention and attention, ib.; due place, namely, where Mass is to be heard, 482 sqq.; excusing causes, 486.
Mobilized soldiers, see Military persons.
Moderation of blameless defense, what it is, 120; its violation, ib.
Modesty: its diverse acceptations, 711, 717.
Mode in contracts, 262.
Mohatra, what it is, 288 note.
Mollities, see Pollution.
Counterfeit money, see Money.
Monopoly, what it is, 301; whether a legal and private monopoly is lawful, ib.
Mons pietatis, when it commits injustice, 289.
Morphine, see Narcotic remedies.
Desire for death can be lawful, unlawful, or imperfect, 116.
Carnal or venereal motions: their morality, 689; resistance to them, 690.
Women: their emancipation, 593; see also Mother, Wife.
Public offices, how distributing them unjustly induces an obligation of restitution, 99.
Gift from the hand, tongue, or service in simony, 556.
Change, what kind is grave in the canonical Hours, 370; change of a last will, 279.
Mutilation of oneself is always unlawful unless it is employed to save bodily life, 115; mutilation of a malefactor insofar as it is a lawful corporal punishment, 117; mutilation insofar as it induces an obligation of restitution, 204.
Mute person as an unjust cooperator, 109.
Loan for consumption: what the contract of a loan for consumption is, 284; whether and when it is lawful to receive interest in a contract of loan for consumption, 285.
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Narcotic remedies, when they are lawful, 672.
Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ: the Vigil of the Nativity is a joyful fast, 656; on the day of the Nativity the faithful are not bound to assist at more than one Mass, 478.
Natural son, see Illegitimate children.
Necessity: when extreme necessity is a legitimate cause for taking another's thing, 86 sq.; it excuses from making restitution, 242.
Denial of the faith is never lawful, 507.
Negligence as the opposite of studiousness, 716; negligence in diverse offices and acts, see the individual entries.
Management of another's affairs is a gratuitous quasi-contract, 283; by force of it a finder is bound to guard the thing taken up and to seek the legitimate owner, 48.
Taking the name of God in vain is a venial sin, 535.
Fairs, what kinds are prohibited on feast days, 493.
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Ecclesiastical offerings, what they are, 499.
Obedience: one kind is material, another formal, 575; its object, 576; its excellence, 577; its extension, 578; opposed vices, 579; obedience of children toward parents, 583, of a wife toward her husband, 592, of servants toward masters, 596, of subjects toward rulers, 601.
Obsecration, see Adjuration.
Service: a gift from service in simony, 556.
Observance of the Lord's day and feasts, see The Lord's day and Feasts; observance is a special virtue, 574; its distinctions, 573; its obligations, 574.
Vain observance is a species of superstition, 513; its divisions, 514; its moral malice, 515; criteria for discerning it, 516.
Obsession, see Exorcism.
Occasion of damage, whether it induces an obligation of restitution, 95.
Killing of oneself, 112, of an unjust aggressor, 120, of an innocent person, 131, of an infant in the maternal womb, 134 sqq. See also Abortion.
Occult compensation, see Compensation.
Concealment of the truth, 172.
Occupation, what it is, 40; occupation of animals, 41, of treasure, 45; whether private dominion arose from violent occupation, 4.
Divine Office: its diverse names, 360; propositions condemned in this matter, ib.; its parts, 361; who are bound, 362; this obligation is grave, ib.; what matter is grave, ib.; when this obligation arises for clerics in major orders, 363, for beneficiaries, 364; Divine Office of canons, 366, of religious, 367; form of the Divine Office, 368; what change is considered grave, ib.; due order to be observed, 371; place and posture, 372; time, 373; anticipation of Matins and Lauds, ib.; causes excusing from recitation, 378; who can dispense, 380.
Oneiromancy, what it is, 507; whence dreams proceed, ib.
Servile and forensic works prohibited on Sundays and feast days, 493.
Workers: their obligations in a contract of hiring, 306.
Strike, when it is lawful, 307.
Artisans as regards observance of the Lord's day, 486, 495, as regards observance of fasting and abstinence, 665.
Opium, see Narcotic remedies.
Oppression of a woman, see Stuprum.
Prayer: its diverse acceptations, 331 sq.; it is an act of religion, ib.; what we intend in praying, 333; remote and proximate subject of prayer, 334 sqq.; divisions of prayer: mental, vocal, public, private, etc., 336 sqq.; what can be sought in prayer, 338; for whom one is to pray, 340; to whom our prayers are to be directed, 343; prayer is necessary by necessity of means and of precept, 346; when the precept of praying obliges, 347; primary and secondary effects of prayer, 349 sqq.; conditions required for the efficacy of prayer, 352 sqq.
Oratory, what a public, semipublic, and private oratory are, 483 sqq.; who satisfy the Sunday precept in a private oratory, 485; whether someone is bound to use the privilege of a private oratory if otherwise he cannot hear prescribed Mass, ib.
Ordeals, what they are and whether they were lawful, 510.
Order of restitution to be made by several cooperators, 227; among diverse creditors, 236.
Order to be observed in the canonical Hours, 371.
Organ: its use in churches, 464.
Orphanage: whether restitution must be made to it if someone secretly places his own child there, 148.
Kisses, when they are sins, 693.
Idleness: whether, to avoid idleness, it is lawful to perform light labors on feast days, 496.
Eggs are lawful on fast days, 655.
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Pact, see Contracts.
Flatterer, who he is and when he is bound to restore damage caused, 106.
Papal cases: vows reserved to the Pope, 424.
Paraphernal goods of a wife, 17.
Parcimonial goods of beneficiaries, 37.
Parents: their offices toward children, 585 sqq.; how they are bound to repair damage caused by their children, 110; how they can invalidate the vows of their children, 417.
Parliament, see Deputies.
Legitimate portion of an inheritance, what it is, 273; a testator is not bound to restitution if he has deprived heirs of the legitimate portion, 281.
Participant either in booty or in an unjust action, how he is bound to restitution, 108; whether it is sometimes lawful to participate materially in another's damaging action, ib.
Particles of the Holy Cross, 386.
Acceleration of birth, when it is lawful, 137.
Parvificence as a vice opposed to magnificence, 640.
Father, see Parents.
Doubtful paternity, to what it obliges, 226.
Patience is a special and very necessary virtue, 633 sq.; its relation to longanimity, 635; means for obtaining it, 636; opposed vices, 641.
Patrimonial goods of a cleric, 36.
Seconds in a duel are excommunicated, 124.
Patriotism, true or false, 571.
The poor, when they are excused from observance of the Lord's day, 487, 496; in extreme necessity they can take another's thing, 86; when it is lawful to bestow upon the poor what is to be restored, 233.
Public sinners cannot receive ecclesiastical burial, 538.
Peculium of clerics: what disposition of it is lawful, 36; what beneficial peculium is, ib.
Money accepted to conceal a theft or crime, 110; as the object of a loan for consumption, 284; as a medium of exchange and measure of value in sale, 292; one who uses counterfeit money is bound to restitution, 301.
Peptonum, whether it can be taken on days of abstinence, 663.
Unjust striking of a cleric or religious is personal sacrilege, 541; striking of parents injures piety, 571.
Risk to the principal is a title for receiving interest, 287.
Perjury, what it is, 456; its malice, 457 sq.
Mixing of foods is lawful, 654.
Perseverance as a special virtue, 637; its relation to constancy, ib.; opposed vices, 642.
Pertinacity as opposed to the virtue of perseverance, 642.
Sexual perversion: its diverse modes, 705 and 707.
Photography: whether it is lawful to practice it on Sundays and feast days, 490.
Pious causes in a testament, 277.
Piety is taken in diverse senses, 569; its object, 570; offices of piety, 580 sqq.
Painting with brush or needle, whether it is lawful on feast days, 490.
Fishing, see Hunting.
Fish: what is understood by the name of fish on days of abstinence, 655; mixing of foods, i.e., the eating of meat and fish on fast days, is permitted, 654.
Conventional penalty in a loan for consumption, 287.
Penance as a part of the sacrament, see Satisfaction.
Venereal pollution, what it is, 705; its moral malice, ib.; venereal delectations caused in women, boys, and eunuchs have the malice of pollution, ib.
Pollution of a church or sacred place, when it occurs, 546.
Possessor of another's thing is either in good, bad, or doubtful faith, 208; who a possessor in good faith is, 209; his rights and obligations, 211 sqq.; who a possessor in bad faith is, 216; his obligations by reason of the thing accepted, fruits, arising damage, and gain ceasing, 217 sqq.; who a possessor in doubtful faith is and his obligations, 221 sqq.
Booty: whether it is lawful to take it in war, 47.
Prescription, what it is, 57; how it is divided, ib.; its efficacy for acquiring dominion, 58; conditions required for legitimate prescription, 59 sqq.; statutes concerning prescription according to certain modern systems of law, 64; whether negative good faith suffices for liberative prescription, 62, 69; whether biennial and other brief prescriptions are valid in conscience, 64; how prescription favors a possessor in good faith, 213.
Presence, what kind is required for hearing Mass, 477.
Presumption insofar as it is opposed to magnanimity, 639.
Dinner on fast days, at what hour it is to be taken, 654; how long it can be prolonged, ib.; what foods can be taken, ib.
Precarium, what it is, 283.
Morning and evening prayers, and prayers before and after meals, whether they oblige, 348.
Price in sale, what it is, 294; it is either legal, common, or conventional, 295 sqq.; the legal price is to be observed, 295; when it is lawful to sell above the common price, 298; when a conventional price is just, 299; simoniacal price, 556.
Ecclesiastical first fruits, what they are, 499.
Rulers: their obligations, 599.
Privilege: how those violating the privileges of clerics sin, 540 sq.
Prodigality, when it becomes a mortal sin, 616.
Offspring, see Sons.
Promise as a gratuitous contract, what it is, 267; whether it is a sufficient title for occult compensation, 89, 269; obligation of a promise, 268; gravity of this obligation, ib.; cessation, 269; to what the defloration of a virgin under promise of marriage obliges, 149; promissory oath, see Oath.
Pronunciation in the Divine Office, 376.
Property, see Dominion.
Puberty, see Minors before puberty.
Public sinner, see Sinners.
Pudicity is not chastity itself, but a special circumstance of it, 675; whether it is lawful to kill an invader of pudicity, 122.
Puncture of the heart, 132; of the amnion, 141.
Purgatory, see Souls.
Pusillanimity insofar as it is opposed to the virtue of magnanimity, 639.
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Roots of restitution, 207.
To hear Mass over the radio, 477.
Robbery includes a twofold injury: one personal, the other real, 77.
Abduction as a sin of lust, 700.
Rebellion, see Sedition.
Recourse: how those providing recourse to a thief are bound to restitution, 107.
One meal on fast days, 653; its hour, 654.
Regulars: upon whom the obligation of reciting the canonical Hours chorally or privately is incumbent, 367; what calendar they must use, 369; they can dispense from vows, with certain exceptions, 425.
Reincidence: absolution from censures under reincidence, 491.
Religion: its etymology, 324; its diverse acceptations, ib.; insofar as it is a virtue, 325; its subject, 326; its necessity, 327; its extension, ib.; the principal acts of religion are devotion, prayer, adoration, sacrifice, use of the sacraments, vow, oath, adjuration, and sanctification of certain days: see the individual words; vices opposed to the virtue of religion, 500 sqq.
Religious, see Regulars.
Relics of saints, how they are to be venerated, 387.
Festive rest prescribed on Sundays and feast days, what it requires, 488 sqq.; excusing causes, 495.
Restitution for violated justice, what it is, 202; how it differs from satisfaction and payment, ib.; it arises from commutative justice alone having been violated, 203; whether material restitution is to be made for merely personal damage, 204; necessity of restitution, 205; the precept of restoring is a negative precept, 206; the roots of restitution are another's thing either possessed or damaged, 207; measure of restitution, 223; order of restitution to be made by cooperators, 227;
to whom restitution is to be made, 228 sqq.; at what time, 237; in what place, 238; in what manner, 240; causes wholly exempting from restitution, 241; causes excusing for a time, 243; restitution to be made to depraved societies, 229, to the commonwealth, 230, to an insurance institution, 231; after a fraudulent cession of goods, 232; on account of a duel, 128; on account of stuprum and adultery, 147 sqq.; on account of neglect of the Divine Office, 364 sq.; restitution of a simoniacal price, 566.
Mental restriction, what it is and how it is distinguished, 171; purely mental restriction is never lawful, but when necessity demands, broadly mental restriction may be used, 172 sq.
Retraction of a wicked mandate or counsel given, 101 sq., of an imposed calumny, 197.
Accused person, whether he must confess his own crime, 163; how he can defend himself, ib.; his flight, 164; as regards penalties to be undergone, ib.
Revelation of a secret, when it is lawful, 180.
Reverence, what it is and how it differs from honor, 182; owed to God and sacred things, 325, to parents, 582, to masters, 596, to a ruler, 600.
Revocation of a testament, 279.
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Holy Saturday: after midday fasting and abstinence cease, 658.
Chapel, see Oratory.
Sacrilege: its nominal and real definition, 536 sq.; it is distinguished as personal, local, and real, 538; its malice, 539; in how many ways personal sacrilege is committed, 540 sqq.; when violation of a vow is sacrilege, 544; how local sacrilege is committed, 545 sqq.; how real sacrilege is committed, 551 sqq.; carnal sacrilege, 702.
Sadism, 705.
Indult of secularization, what it contains, 424.
Salary, see Wages.
Dancing, see Dances.
Sanctification of the Lord's day and feasts, what precepts it includes, 467.
Invocation of saints is useful, 344.
Sapphism, 705.
Satisfaction, how it is to be rendered for injured honor, 185; a duel is a means altogether unfit for obtaining due satisfaction, 123.
Knowledge necessary in a judge, 153, in an advocate, 160.
Writing by hand or by machine, whether it is a servile work, 490.
Secret taken objectively and subjectively, 175; divisions, ib.; when it is lawful to investigate another's secret, 176; it is not lawful to use a secret unjustly learned, ib.; how the keeping of a secret obliges, 177; just causes for manifesting a secret, 180; secret of confession, see Seal.
Caesarean section is lawful for saving the offspring, 133.
Sedition is unlawful, 601 sq.
Human seed spilled in a sacred place, 546.
Half-full advertence, see Advertence.
Old person, when he is excused from fasting, 665.
Ecclesiastical burial: to sell ecclesiastical burial is sometimes simony, 564.
Sequestration, what it is, 283.
Dishonest conversations, 696.
Servile works, what kinds are prohibited on Sundays and feast days, 488, 492; the precept of abstaining from servile works admits slightness of matter, 494; causes excusing from this precept, 495; who can dispense from it, 498.
Slavery, under what conditions it is lawful, 11.
Sexual perversion, what it is, 707.
Simony: its nominal and real definition, 555 sq.; its divisions, 558; its moral malice, 560; when simony of divine law occurs, 561 sqq., of ecclesiastical law, 564 sqq.; penalties of simoniacs, 565.
Simulation, what it is, 168; it is reduced to lying, ib.
Sobriety as a special virtue, 668.
Socialists: what their postulates are, 5.
Sodomy, what it is and how it is divided, 706.
In solidum: what an obligation of restitution in solidum is, 223.
Solemnity of vows is either essential or accidental, 391.
Sisters, see Regulars.
Principal: risk to the principal is a sufficient title for receiving interest, 287.
Sortilege, what it is and when it is lawful, 509.
Spiritism: its notion, 523; its morality, 524.
Wager as a contract, what it is, 314; its lawfulness and obligations, 315.
State of grace is required for praying efficaciously, 354.
State of life: children are free by natural law itself in choosing a state of life, 585.
Artificial sterilization is unlawful, 6.
Studiousness as a potential part of the virtue of temperance, 716; curiosity is opposed to it by excess, ib., negligence by defect, ib.
Stuprum, what it is, 699; how it induces an obligation of restitution, 147 sqq., 226.
To counsel evil or a lesser evil, see One counseling.
Subdiaconate induces the obligation of reciting the Divine Office, 363, and of preserving celibacy, indeed by force of a vow, 391.
Auction, 300.
Derision, what it is, 183.
Hereditary succession is either intestate or through a testament, 273.
Suffrage: how those giving a vote to a bad deputy sin, 105, 604; how deputies sin and are bound to restitution when they vote for the enactment of iniquitous laws, ib.; whether the right of suffrage is to be granted to women, 593.
Suicide: its malice, 112, causes, ib.; when indirect suicide is lawful, 112; whether it is lawful to kill oneself to avoid a harsher death, 114; whether a virgin can choose death rather than her own violation, 115.
Inordinate sumptuousness is a vice opposed to magnificence, 640.
Superior, when he must repair damage caused by a subject, 101, 109; one not impeding the defamation of his subject sins, 195.
Superstition, what it is, 501; its species, ib.
Deaf person as regards recitation of the breviary with a companion, 374.
Rash suspicion, what it is, 199; when one falsely transferring suspicion of a crime to another is bound to restitution, 95.
Support owed to a wife, 16, to beneficed clerics, 37, to children, even illegitimate ones, 586, 588.
Whispering, what it is, 188; it is reduced to detraction, ib.
Symphysiotomy, what it is, 135.
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Turning tables, whether they can be employed, 520.
Obscene touches, how they are sinful, 694.
Rash judgment, what it is, 199; its malice, 200; retained and conceived only inwardly, it is rarely a mortal sin, 201; rashness as a vice opposed to fortitude, 638; rash expectation of special divine assistance is a tempting of God, 525.
Temperance as a condition of every virtue and as a special virtue, 643; its object, 644; relation between natural and supernatural temperance, 645; its integral parts, 646, subjective parts, 647, potential parts, 648; opposed vices, 667 sqq.
Time required for legitimate prescription, 63; assigned for reciting the canonical Hours, 373.
Tempting of God, in what it consists, 527; its divisions, 527; malice, 528.
Testament: its diverse forms, 276; validity of an informal testament, 277; it is not lawful secretly to supply a defect of legal form, ib.; acceptance of a testament, 278; its revocation, 279, commutation, ib.; interpretation, ib.
Testator: to whom the right of making a testament belongs, 274; mode of making a testament, 275; obligations of a testator, 281.
Witness: obligation of giving testimony in a trial, 160; excuses from giving testimony, ib.; fault of false testimony, ib.; obligations of a false witness, 161; in an oath God is invoked as a witness to veracity, 437.
Theological fault in damaging, 93, 96.
Treasure, what it is, 45; to whom dominion over discovered treasure belongs, 46; whether civil laws concerning the discovery of treasure are merely penal, ib.; whether it is lawful to buy at the common price a field in which treasure is hidden, ib.
Timidity as a vice opposed to fortitude, 638.
Title: diverse distinctions, 62; what kind is necessary for legitimate prescription, ib.; what kind suffices for receiving interest or interesse, 287.
Torture of animals, what kind of sin it is, 14.
Tribadism, 705.
Tributes: to defraud ecclesiastical tributes is contrary to religion and justice, 499.
Triple contract, what it is, 288, note 3.
Truncation of words, what kind of sin it is in recitation of the Divine Office, 374.
Trust is a species of monopoly; see Monopoly.
Disgraceful condition in a contract, 253; disgraceful touches, looks, kisses, conversation, and reading, 691 sqq.
Tyrannicide is unlawful, 601.
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Unilateral contract, 250.
Usucaption, 57.
Usury, what it is, 285; usury properly so called is contrary to natural, divine, and ecclesiastical law, 286; extrinsic causes or titles permitting interest or usury broadly so called, 287 sq.
Usurpation of ecclesiastical goods is sacrilege, 554.
Use as a species of dominion, 3.
Usufruct as a species of dominion, 3.
Utility: whether it is lawful to increase the price of a thing to be sold which is very useful to another, 294.
Wife: her goods, 17; her dominion according to the codes of certain nations, 18 sqq.; thefts of a wife, 83; whether a husband can directly invalidate the vows of his wife, 418.
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Vacant goods, 39.
Value of a thing, see Price.
Vain observance, see Observance; vain taking of the name of God and of other sacred things, what kind of sin it is, 535.
Sacred vessels: to employ them for profane use outside a case of the gravest necessity is sacrilege, 553.
Taxes, see Tributes.
Fare for a public conveyance: when defrauding it obliges to restitution, 85.
Hunting can be prohibited and reserved by the ruler of a territory, 42; a law prohibiting hunting is not a merely penal law, ib.; when hunting unlawfully performed is a mortal sin, ib.; when an obligation of restitution arises, 43; prevailing customs concerning hunting are to be attended to, 44; whether hunting is lawful on feast days, 497.
Sale: what a contract of purchase and sale is, 290; obligations of the seller, 291 sq.; whether a seller can sometimes diminish weight or measure, 293; sale at auction, 300, through brokers, 302.
Venereal delectation, what it is, 681; directly willed outside marriage, it is a mortal sin from its whole genus, 682; indirectly willed, it admits slightness of matter, 683.
Venial sin: whether damaging that is venially evil induces an obligation of restitution, 97.
Truthfulness is taken in diverse senses, 165; excellence and offices of the virtue of truthfulness, ib.; vices opposed to it, ib.
To beat, whether a private man can lawfully beat another, 119.
Shamefacedness is not a virtue properly so called, but a laudable passion, 646; it is the guardian of chastity, ib.
Evening prayers, see Prayers.
Harassment of animals, 14.
Vindication insofar as it is a special virtue, 610; opposed vices, 611.
Vindicative justice can be reduced to either legal, distributive, or commutative justice, 71 note.
Violence: whether a woman violently oppressed can herself kill the invader, 122; what kind of sin the violent oppression of a woman is, 699 sq.; how the violent laying of hands upon clerics, etc., is punished, 541.
Divining rod: whether its use is lawful, 510.
Virginity is taken either for integrity of the flesh, for the state of celibacy, or for a moral virtue, 677; whether a vow is required for the virtue of virginity, ib.; excellence of the virtue of virginity, 678; how virginity is lost, 677.
Virgin, whether she can choose death rather than her own violation, 115.
Virtue, what it is, 443 sq.; how it is divided, 456 sq.; relation between the virtues and the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit and the beatitudes, 445 sqq.; existence and essence of acquired virtues, 460 sqq.; their properties, 462 sqq.; virtue consists in a mean, 463; connection of the virtues, 464; their inequality, 467 sqq.; their duration, 471; existence and essence of the infused virtues, 472 sqq.; their properties, 475 sqq. See also the individual virtues.
Force, see Violence.
Life: man does not have full dominion either over his own life, 6, or over the life of another, 118 sqq. See Suicide, Mutilation, Killing.
Vivisection of an animal, when it is lawful, 14.
Last will can be changed, 279.
Pleasurable expenses, 208.
Vow, what it is, 388; moral value and utility of vows, 389; divisions, 390; in what the essence of a solemn vow consists, 391; for the validity of a vow there is required on the part of the subject perfect use of reason, 393; intention of vowing, 394; sufficient deliberation and liberty, 395, without notable error, 396, without grave unjust fear, 397; certain vows are prohibited by ecclesiastical law, 398; object of a vow, 399 sqq.; obligation of a vow, 402; quality of this obligation, 404; fulfillment of a vow, 406; obligation of a conditional, disjunctive, penal, or doubtful vow, 407; interpretation of vows, 408; cessation of a vow intrinsically, 409 sq., through invalidation, 411 sqq., through dispensation, 420 sqq.; vows reserved to the Supreme Pontiff, 423; how bishops and regular confessors can dispense from vows, 424 sq.; cessation of vows through commutation, 429 sqq.; whether a private vow of virginity dissolves betrothal previously entered, 730; a vow insofar as it is an impeding impediment of matrimony, 780 sqq.; insofar as it is a diriment impediment, 816 sq.
Wounding, see Mutilation.