A Topic of Moral Theology
Irritant Laws
Laws that annul the act done against them, and how they differ from merely penal laws.
The works themselves ask 18 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Law · Invalidating Law · Penalty · Ignorance · Marriage · Nullification · Opium · Acts · Breviary · Cessation · Extension of law · Fear · Form · Impediments · Incapacitating law · Invalidation · Judicial interpretation of laws · Love · Parents · Reclusion · Rescission · Retrotraction · Solemnity · State
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)
Vol. I, Pt. I, Q. III, Art. 5. Ecclesiastical Law, Irritant Laws, nn. 450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 456, 457 & 458 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)
Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. I, On Laws, V. On Invalidating and Penal Law, nn. 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230 & 231 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)
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)
18. On Invalidating and Penal Law, nn. 1, 2, 3 & 4 (17 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. I, Treatise On Laws, Part Two. On the Principal…, Ch. III, Article II. On Invalidating Law, nn. 135 & 136 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. II, Fundamental Moral Theology…, On Laws, nn. 280, 281, 282 & 345 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, Pt. I, Tr. III, Ch. III, Art. V, § 2. On Invalidating Law, nn. ¶41, 213, 214 & 215 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On Laws in General, Sect. C, Sixth Part: On Ecclesiasti…, Second Question: On the Po…, Article IV: On the Quality and Extension of the Obligation of Invalidating Law, nn. 352, 353 & 354 (16 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology
Vol. I, Tr. III, Pt. II, Chapter VI. On Invalidating Law, nn. 115, 116, 117, 117, Q. 2 & 117, Q. 3 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The divisions of law — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Billuart, Summa Summae — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)