Article — Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology

Article V. On the Subjects of This Law

336.

I say. § 1. All who have completed the seventh year of age are held by the law of abstinence.

§ 2. All from the completed twenty-first year of age to the begun sixtieth are bound by the law of fasting (Can. 1254).

The terminus from which of the law of abstinence is the seventh year completed; of the law of fasting, the twenty-first completed. The terminus to which of the law of abstinence is the term of life; of the law of fasting, the sixtieth year begun.