A Topic of Moral Theology
Privilege, Custom, Dispensation: the Completion of the Doctrine of Law
Privilege, custom and dispensation, by which the rule of law is completed and relaxed.
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dispensation from law (ed.)
In the index as Dispensation from Law · Laws
In the manuals
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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. I, Bk. I, Tr. II, Diss. II, Pt. I, Sect. III, Ch. I, Article IX. On Those Things which Complete the Doctrine of Laws, n. ¶1 — In this appendix we shall speak first of custom, which can constitute, abrogate, or derogate from a law; then of privilege, which often is customarily called a law, although of its own kind; finally, of rescripts, by whi… Read in context →
Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)
Vol. I, Pt. I, Q. III, Art. 4. Human Law, Dispensation, nn. 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409 & 410 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The Rules of Morality — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Commentaries on Human Acts · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Coppens, Moral Philosophy — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)