diriment

Updated: May 2, 2025

Arising from the will, a defect of consent may be caused through deceit or dissimulation, when one expresses exteriorly a consent that does not really exist; or from constraint imposed by an unjust external force, which causes the consent not to be free." Consanguinity and affinity are diriment impediments.

Eugene Arthur Hecker - A Short History of Women's Rights: From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference: to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With: Additions.

"The marriage could not have taken place," he said slowly. "No Catholic priest could have celebrated it, at least. There would have been a diriment impediment." "I thought so," said Augustina excitedly, "though I wasn't sure. There are so many dispensations nowadays." "Ah, but not in such cases as that," said the priest, with an unconscious sigh that rather startled his companion.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II

Canon law reaffirms the subjection of women Women and marriage Protection to women Divorce Cardinal Gibbons on protection of injured wives by Popes Catholic Church has no divorce But it allows fourteen reasons for declaring marriage null and void and leaving a husband or wife free to remarry Some of these explained Diriment impediments and dispensations Historical instances of the Roman Church's inconsistency Attitude towards women at present day Opinions of Cardinals Gibbon and Moran, and Rev.

Eugene Arthur Hecker - A Short History of Women's Rights: From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference: to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With: Additions.

By the doctrine of "diriment impediments" the Pope or a duly constituted representative can declare that a marriage has been null and void from the very beginning because of some impediment defined in the canon law.

Eugene Arthur Hecker - A Short History of Women's Rights: From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference: to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With: Additions.

But it allows fourteen cases where a marriage can be declared absolutely null and void, as if it had never existed; and in these cases the man or woman may marry again. To say that the Roman Church does not allow divorce is, therefore, playing upon words. The instruments used to render its strict theory ineffective are "diriment impediments" and "dispensations."

Eugene Arthur Hecker - A Short History of Women's Rights: From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference: to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With: Additions.