A Topic of Moral Theology

Abduction

The impediment of abduction: marriage with a person carried off or detained by force.

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elopement · kidnapping a bride · raptus (abduction) (ed.)

In the index as Abduction · Betrothal · Clerics and vowed persons, marriage of · Diriment Impediments of Marriage · Abductors · Liberty · Parents, consent of · Adultery · Betrothals · Bishop · Cause · Closed times · Consanguinity · Council of Meaux and Paris · Council of Orleans · Council of Tours · Crime (impediment) · Fraud · Leo the Great, St. · Lust · Nuptial blessing · Requisite Conditions · Symmachus · Those Violating

In the manuals

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Vol. II, Bk. IX, Ch. X, Article XIV. Abduction, nn. 1, 2, 3 & 4 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. VIII, Diss. II, Pt. II, Insofar as It Is a Sacrament, Particularly, Sect. III, Ch. III, Article VII. Raptus, n. 785 — With canon 1074 considered, a twofold raptus can be distinguished, properly so called and less properly so called; each diriments marriage. I. Notion of raptus properly so called. Raptus properly so called as an impedime… Read in context →

Commentaries on the Nature of Moral Theology, on Conscience and Probabilism, on the Fourth Precept, and on the Sixth and Ninth Precepts of the Decalogue (Commentarii)

Ch. II, Article IV: On Abduction, nn. 61, 62, 63, 64 & 65 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, On the Sixth and Ninth Pre…, II. On Sins of Lust According to Nature, n. 792 — What is abduction? - Abduction can be taken in two ways. First it can be taken as it is a diriment impediment of marriage, and it is the violent leading away of any woman from the home or paternal or quasi-paternal power… Read in context →

Vol. IV, On Marriage, III. On the Impediments of Marriage, nn. 1024 & 1025 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. IV, On the Constitution *Apostolicae Sedis*, n. 1212 — VI. The remaining Tridentine excommunications, reserved to no one, which are retained by the present Constitution, are the following: 1. The abductor, and all those furnishing counsel, help, and favor to him, are excommu… Read in context →

Cases of Conscience, Proposed by Cardinal de Lugo, by Fr. Beniamino Elbel, by Fr. Ioannes Petrus Gury and by Other Authors, and Resolved (Casus conscientiae)

170. Excommunication on Account of Abduction, n. 1 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.

Vol. II, Treatise on Matrimony, Ch. VI, Art. II, § II, Point XIII. On the Impediment of Abduction, n. 857 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. X, Ch. IX, Art. III, § 7. Abduction, nn. 819, 820, 821 & 822 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On Matrimony, Third Part: On the Impedim…, Question Three: On Dirimen…, Article VI: On Abduction and Crime, nn. 895 & 896 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treatise on Christian Marriage

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Ancyra, A.D. 314, n. ¶874 — Canon XI. Girls betrothed to some men and afterwards carried off by others, it seemed good that they be restored to those to whom they had been betrothed, even if they suffered force.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Canons of St. Bas…, A.D. 374-75, n. ¶929 — Canon XXII. Those who have women by abduction, if indeed they have carried off women already betrothed to others, are not to be admitted before they have been taken away from them and restored to the power of those to wh… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Carthage, A.D. 398, n. ¶1002 — Canon CIV. If any widows, however much still placed in lesser years and left by a husband at mature age, have devoted themselves to the Lord and, having cast off lay clothing, have appeared in religious habit under the t… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Chalce…, A.D. 451, n. ¶1063 — Canon XXVII. Concerning those who carry off women, even under the name of living together, or those cooperating with or conniving at abductors, the holy synod decreed that, if indeed they are clerics, they fall from thei… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Arles, A.D. 443 or 452, n. ¶1071 — Canon XLVI. Professed widows, if they have furnished connivance, are to be condemned with the abductors.Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Letter of Leo, to…, Bishop of Aquileia, A.D. 458, n. ¶1090 — Decree I. Since through the calamity of war ... men were carried off into captivity, and their women ... who thought their own husbands either killed or believed they would never be freed from domination, and, solitude c… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Orleans, A.D. 511, n. ¶1116 — Canon II. If an abductor with the abducted woman has fled to the Church, and it has been established that the woman herself suffered violence, let her immediately be freed from the hand of the abductor, and let the abduc… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Decretal Letter o…, Bishop of Arles, A.D. 513, n. ¶1122 — Decree IV. We detest abductors of widows or virgins because of the savagery of so great a crime, pursuing more vehemently those who have attempted to associate virgins consecrated to God, whether willing or unwilling, to… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Orleans, A.D. 538, n. ¶1157 — Canon XVI. Concerning the abductors of consecrated virgins or of those living in the purpose under devotion, we establish that if anyone has presumed to inflict force upon a consecrated or devoted woman, that is, one who… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Paris, about A.D. 557, nn. ¶1166 & ¶1168 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Tours, A.D. 567, nn. ¶1175 & ¶1176 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Paris, A.D. 615, n. ¶1216 — Thus Sirmondus edited the canon just now recited. But Baluzius (in the Capitularies of the Franks), referring from the same Council an edict of King Chlothar on this matter, thus presents it under n. XVIII: Religious gir… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Reims, about A.D. 625, n. ¶1222 — Canon XXIII. Widows who have sought to be consecrated to the Lord, or girls consecrated to the Lord, let no one, sustained either by royal authority or by power of whatever kind, or by his own rashness, dare to abduct or… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Roman Council of …, A.D. 721, nn. ¶1262, ¶1263 & ¶1264 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Verneuil, A.D. 844, n. ¶1466 — Canon VI. But a girl betrothed by one man and abducted by another, according to the statutes of the Council of Ancyra, is to be returned to him by whom she had been betrothed, even if she has suffered violence from the a… Read in context →

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Meaux …, A.D. 845-46, nn. ¶1467, ¶1468, ¶1469, ¶1470 & ¶1471 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Pavia, A.D. 850, nn. ¶1491 & ¶1492 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palmieri, On Christian Marriage, Appendix: Conspectus of th…, From the Council of Tours,…, A.D. 1060, n. ¶1591 — Canon IX. Whoever has accepted in marriage his own blood-relative, or her whom his blood-relative had previously known, or one whose blood-relative he has carnally accepted in marriage, or hereafter has accepted, or, aft… Read in context →

Compendium of Moral Theology

Vol. II, Tr. XVIII, Ch. VI, Art. II, § II. On Impediments in Particular, nn. 884, 885, 885, Q. 2 & 885, Q. 3 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Diss. II, Chapter I — On diriment impediments, nn. XXXIII & XXXIV (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

The Decretum of Gratian (Concordia discordantium canonum)

Pt. II, Causa XXXVI, c. — GRATIAN. A certain man, without her father’s knowledge, enticed someone’s daughter with gifts and invited her to a banquet. When the banquet had ended, the young man violated the virgin. When this was discovered by her p… Read in context →

Pt. II, Causa XXXVI, Question I, cc. , 1, 2 & 3 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pt. II, Causa XXXVI, Question II, cc. , 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. III, Book Eight. On Matrimony., Question Five. On the Impe…, Article Three. On Diriment…, Section 7. Abduction., nn. 582 & 583 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pastoral Questions

Ch. V, Article VII: Raptus, nn. 136, ¶6172, 137, ¶6174, ¶6175, ¶6176, 138, ¶6178, ¶6179, ¶6180, ¶6181, 139, ¶6183, ¶6184, ¶6185 & ¶6186 (16 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Impediments of Marriage — McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Tanquerey · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Slater, Cases II · The Casuist · The Roman Catechism · 1917 Code of Canon Law — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)