A Topic of Moral Theology
Formalities and capacity for wills
The Wills Act; who cannot make a will (minors, the insane, solemnly professed religious).
The works themselves ask 8 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Testament · Civil laws concerning paternal power · Will · Succession of inheritance · Who legatees are · Donation · Informal · Legacy · Minors · Substitution, what and of how many kinds · Acceptance · Codicil · Emancipation · Form of contracts · Heir in Latin law · Legitime · Support · Testamentary inheritance · Those civilly interdicted · Wife · Agreements of a debtor with creditors · Bequest to pious causes · Bishop · Capacity of contracting
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. VII, Pt. II, Chapter III. Wills, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 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.
Vol. I, Treatise On Contracts, Second Part. On Contracts …, Sect. I, Ch. II, Art. II, § II, Point I, Division, and Form of Testaments, nn. 814, 815, 816, 817, 818 & 819 (25 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, Treatise On Contracts, Second Part. On Contracts …, Sect. I, Ch. II, Art. II, § II, Point II. On Testators and Heirs, nn. 820, 821, 822, 823, 824, 825, 826, 827 & 828 (38 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 II: On Contracts in Particular, nn. 687–700 (14 passages)
Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels
Vol. II, Bk. II, Tractate V: On Justice, Ch. IX, Article III: On Testaments and Last Wills, nn. ¶1, 550, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 556 & 557 (9 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. II, Question Three: On Testament, nn. 492 & 493 (21 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Third Part: Concerning Com…, Sect. C, Ch. II, Question Four: On Principles Common to Donation and Testament, nn. 496, 497 & 498 (39 passages — hover a number to read it)
Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues
Tr. II, Disputation XI: On Testame…, Question II: What solemnity is required for a testament, closed and open, nn. 1–20 (20 passages)
Tr. II, Disputation XI: On Testame…, Question III: Who can and ought to make a testament, or be instituted heirs, nn. 1–27 (27 passages)
Tr. II, Disputation XI: On Testame…, Question IV: Whether an heir instituted in a testament invalid at civil law through defect of solemnity can take the inheritance in the forum of conscience, despoiling the heir who succeeds on intestacy, nn. 1–19 (19 passages)
Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume I
Slater, Cases I, Contracts, Case 6. A Lost Will, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5 & ¶6 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Wills — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Concina, Compendium · The Casuist · Decretals of Gregory IX · Liber Sextus — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)