Morals of the Church
Topics › Consent in contracts › Mistake in contracts

A Topic of Moral Theology

Mistake in contracts

Substantial mistake voids; accidental mistake does not.

The works themselves ask 3 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.

In the index as Error (Error) · Fear (Metus) · Contract · Contracts · Fraud · Consent · Ignorance · Stole fees (Jura Stolae) · Annulment · Deceit · Null contract · Rescindable Contract · Rescission · Act · Betrothals (Sponsalia) · Deception · Defect · Deliberation · Error of one causing damage · Fiction of law · Fraud in a contract (Dolus in contractu) · Inadvertence · Mistake in contract · Vices

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

Thomas Slater, S.J. — 3 passages

Vol. I, Bk. VII, Pt. I, Chapter II. On Consent, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Ludovicus Wouters, C.SS.R. — 2 passages

Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. VII, Sect. I, Ch. II, Art. I, § IV, Point II, I. Error, nn. 836 & 837 (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.

Jean-Pierre Gury, S.J.; notes by Antonio Ballerini, S.J. — 16 passages

Vol. I, Treatise On Contracts, First Part. On Contracts i…, Ch. I, Art. III, § II, Point I. On Error, nn. 775, 776, 777, 778 & 779 (16 passages — hover a number to read it)

Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology

Adolphe Tanquerey, S.S. — 5 passages

Vol. III, Contracts, and the Obligat…, On the Virtue of Justice (…, Part II — Chapter I: On Contracts in General, nn. 625, 626, 627, 628 & 629 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Dominic M. Prümmer, O.P.

Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. I, Q. IV, Ch. I, Art. II, § 3. On Legitimate Consent, n. 257 — 257. a) On error and fraud. Error is a judgment discordant with objective truth. Error which has place in contracts can be either substantial or accidental, according as it concerns either the very substance of the contr… Read in context →

Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium

Anthony Konings, C.SS.R. — 13 passages

Vol. I, TREATISE ON CONTRACTS, FIRST PART: ON CONTRACTS I…, Ch. I, Art. III, § II. On Defects Opposed to Consent, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶848, ¶849, ¶850, ¶851, ¶852, ¶3, ¶853, ¶854, ¶855, ¶856 & ¶857 (13 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 25 passages

Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Third Part: Concerning Com…, Sect. C, Ch. I, Question Two: On Consent Required for Contract, nn. 458, 459 & 460 (25 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Aloysius Sabetti, S.J., and Timothy Barrett, S.J. — 4 passages

Vol. I, Tr. IX, Pt. I, Ch. II, Art. III, § II. On Those Things which Can Vitiate Consent, nn. ¶1, 491, 492 & 493 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Daniele Concina, O.P.

Diss. III, Chapter II — On the various contracts, n. V — V. QUESTION II. Whether guile makes a contract void? ANSWER. Guile is taken for deceit, or for fraud, or for craft, by which one deceives another. Error, or guile, which precedes or accompanies a contract, if it be conce… Read in context →

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Gaudentius Bontempi of Brescia, O.F.M. Cap. — 28 passages

Tr. II, Disputation I: On Contract…, Question III: How error, or fraud, vitiates a contract, nn. 1–28 (28 passages)

Treated under the broader heading Consent in contracts — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Marc, Institutiones Morales — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)