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Donation for a Pious Cause

Donation for a Pious Cause, as treated in Wouters (Scholion. On Donation for a Pious Cause).

The works themselves ask 4 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.

Also asked about as…

donating to the church · gifts to charity (ed.)

In the index as Donation (Donatio) · Testator · CONTRACT · Children · Disposable part · Legal reservation · Legitimate portion · Testament · Brothers, sisters · Illegitimate children · Revocation of donation · Spurious child · Testamentary heirs

In the manuals

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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Ludovicus Wouters, C.SS.R. — 5 passages

Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. VII, Sect. I, Ch. II, Art. II, § II, Scholion. On Donation for a Pious Cause, nn. ¶1, 873, 874, 875 & 876 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae

Clement Marc, C.SS.R. — 6 passages

Vol. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Tr. VII, Diss. IV, Ch. II, ARTICLE II: On Donation, nn. ¶1063, ¶1064, ¶1065, ¶1066, ¶1067 & ¶1068 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium

Anthony Konings, C.SS.R. — 6 passages

Vol. I, TREATISE ON CONTRACTS, SECOND PART: ON CONTRACTS …, Ch. II, Art. II, OF AN ALLECTIVE DONATION, AND OF A DONATION ON ACCOUNT OF A FALSE CAUSE, nn. ¶1, ¶892, ¶2, ¶893, ¶3 & ¶894 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 23 passages

Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Third Part: Concerning Com…, Sect. C, Ch. II, Question Four: On Principles Common to Donation and Testament, nn. 501, 502 & 503 (23 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Gifts — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)