A Topic of Moral Theology

The Effects of a Contract for a Cause

The Effects of a Contract for a Cause, as treated in Wouters (Point III. On the Effects of a Contract for a Cause).

Also asked about as…

contract made for a reason (ed.)

In the manuals

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. VII, Sect. I, Ch. II, Art. I, § VI, Point III. On the Effects of a Contract for a Cause, nn. 852 & 853 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Diss. III, Chapter II — On the various contracts, n. VII — VII. QUESTION III. What is to be said of contracts entered upon under a cause, a mode, a demonstration, or a condition? ANSWER. A contract is said to be celebrated under a cause when the cause inducing to contract is set… Read in context →

Treated under the broader heading Consideration and the effects of contract — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae 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.)