A Topic of Moral Theology
Contracts for an unlawful act; payment for a crime committed
Invalid; whether the price may be kept once the act is done; bribes to a judge.
The works themselves ask 3 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
paying someone to do wrong (ed.)
In the index as Contract · Goods · Null contract · Prostitution · Base contract · Condition · Grave or light matter · Judge · Pact · Thing
In the manuals
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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. I, Bk. VII, Pt. I, Chapter IV. The Matter of Contract, nn. 4 & 5 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. III, Contracts, and the Obligat…, On the Virtue of Justice (…, Part II — Chapter I: On Contracts in General, nn. 644, 645, 646, 647, 648, 649 & 650 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Third Part: Concerning Com…, Sect. C, Ch. I, Question Three: On the Object or Matter of Contract, nn. 464, 465 & 466 (43 passages — hover a number to read it)
Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues
Tr. I, Disputation XXIV: On Resti…, Q. V, Subquestion II: What thing…, Doubt V: Whether the wages of harlotry are to be restored, nn. 1–14 (14 passages)
Tr. II, Disputation III: On Promise, Question V: Whether a promise binds when made for a base cause, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 (13 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The matter of a contract — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)