A Topic of Moral Theology
The kinds of title
Occupation, accession, prescription, contract, succession.
The works themselves ask 2 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Prescription · Title · Dominion · Title to property · Accession · Limitation Acts · Order · Property · Thing · Acquisition of dominion or property · Alluvion · Betrothals · Derelict things · Finding · Finding lost articles · Fruits · Good faith · Labor · Lost articles · Lost things · Occupancy, first · Occupation · Ownerless goods · Poaching
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. I, Bk. VI, Pt. VII, Div. I, Chapter IV. Title to Property, n. 1 — TITLE is a cause sufficient to confer property in a thing. There are several kinds of title, some derived from the natural law, others due to positive law, and others which have their effect from the will of private pers… Read in context →
Vol. I, Bk. VI, Pt. VII, Div. I, Ch. IV, Section I. Occupation, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, Bk. VI, Pt. VII, Div. I, Ch. IV, Section II. Accession, nn. 1 & 2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, Bk. VI, Pt. VII, Div. I, Ch. IV, Section III. Prescription, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. VII, Sect. I, Ch. I, Art. II, § III, Point IV, II. On Acquisitive Prescription, n. 808 — For acquisitive prescription there are required: a prescriptible thing, possession prescribed by law, a just title, good faith, and the time established by law (St. Alphonsus, III, 504). I. A prescriptible thing. All thi… Read in context →
Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. VII, Sect. II, Ch. II, Art. I, Obligation, and Titles of Restitution, n. 981 — III. Titles of restitution, that is, the reasons or roots from which the obligation of restitution arises, are: 1° another's thing materially unjustly possessed; 2° another's thing formally unjustly accepted; 3° mere dam… Read in context →
Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. VII, Diss. III, Pt. III, Sect. II, Chapter I. On the Positive Requisites, n. 618 — X. Canonical title, if it is a question of major Orders. A title of support is understood, that is, a guarantee by which provision is made for the suitable and of itself perpetual support of the ordinand. It is required,… Read in context →
Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, On the Seventh and Tenth P…, III. On the Mode of Acquiring Ownership by Civil Law, n. 919 — What is the title required for prescription? The title required of possession in general is the cause from which we hold or possess a thing. One title is translative of ownership, which per se is ordered to transferring … Read in context →
Vol. III, On Order, II. On the Minister and Subject of Order, n. 912 — There is required 14. as regards receiving sacred orders, a title of honest support, Trent, sess. 21, C. 2; otherwise the Bishop ordaining or granting dimissorials is himself bound to support the one ordained in sacred o… Read in context →
Vol. IV, On Marriage, I. On Betrothals and on the Banns, n. 926 — What and how great is the obligation of betrothals? Betrothals oblige one to enter marriage under mortal sin. For they are an onerous contract in a grave matter. If a term has not been fixed, it will suffice if the one p… Read in context →
Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, FIRST PART: ON THE NATURE …, Ch. II, Art. I, § III. On the acquisition of dominion, n. ¶1 — The fact by which dominion is justly acquired is called a mode of acquiring, and indeed original if the thing which is acquired by that fact was no one's at the time of acquisition; but derivative if at that time it was … Read in context →
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, First Part: On Justice in …, Ch. II, Question Five: On the Acquisition of Right and Dominion, nn. 201 & 202 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)
A Brief Text-Book of Moral Philosophy
Chapter V: Rights of Ownership in Material Property, nn. 182, ¶371, ¶372, ¶373, ¶374 & ¶375 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Title to Property — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Billuart, Summa Summae · Concina, Compendium · Slater, Cases I · Slater, Questions — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)