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Riflessioni sul Canone 1095 (Il Diritto Ecclesiastico 1991 (2-3), 406-427)

webmaster — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:03:57 +0000

Personalismo o individualismo?

El canon 1095 y las Obligaciones Esenciales del Matrimonio (Anuario Argentino de Derecho Canónico, 1997)

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Reglas de interpretación

Reflexiones en torno al Canon 1095 (Ius Canonicum 31 (1991), 85-105; Angelicum 49 (1992), 493-517: also in AA.VV. Incapacidad Co

webmaster — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:07:16 +0000

Si se considera el matrimonio como una de las instituciones más en consonancia con la naturaleza humana, entonces la incapacidad consensual, en el caso de un adulto que goza de uso suficiente de razón, es un fenómeno absolutamente fuera de lo normal o natural. La incapacidad de apreciar las obligaciones esenciales del matrimonio, lo mismo que la de asumirlas, es un "handicap" extraordinario ("incapacitas quid extraordinarium haberi debet" Pompedda, M.: "Incapacitas Adsumendi Obligationes Matrimonii Essentiales" (Periodica LXXV (1986) 138-140)), que sólo puede darse en el caso de una persona seriamente "minusválida" a quien, en consecuencia, se le priva del ejercicio del derecho natural de contraer matrimonio (c. 1058) (c.

The essential obligations of matrimony (Studia canonica 26 (1992), 379-399)

webmaster — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:52:40 +0000

"There is no handy rule of thumb", a Judge observed in a Sentence that came before me recently, "for determining which type of lack of discretion or of incapacity invalidates marital consent". He was of course referring to c. 1095, but I felt he seemed unduly at sea about its interpretation. Canon 1095 itself gives a plain rule: such disabilities can invalidate only if they relate to the essential rights/obligations of marriage. In fact, according to n. 2 of the canon, contractual or consensual incapacity is to be imputed to those "who suffer from grave lack of discretion of judgment concerning essential matrimonial rights and duties (officia)"; and, according to n.

The Distinction between no. 2 and no. 3 of Canon 1095 (The Jurist 54 (1994):1, 228-233)

webmaster — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:51:52 +0000

Incapacity for giving valid matrimonial consent, deriving from some notable defect of the person's psychic faculties, is dealt with in c. 1095 of the 1983 Code: "They are incapable of contracting marriage: 1º who lack sufficient use of reason; 2º who suffer from a grave lack of discretion of judgment concerning the essential matrimonial rights and duties which are to be mutually given and accepted; 3º who are not capable of assuming the essential obligations of matrimony due to causes of a psychic nature".

Some reflections on canon 1095 (Monitor Ecclesiasticus 117 (1992-I), 133-150)

webmaster — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:51:22 +0000

If one considers marriage as one of the most natural of institutions, then consensual incapacity, for an adult endowed with sufficient use of reason, is a most unnatural phenomenon. An inability to appreciate the essential obligations of marriage, just as much as an inability to fulfil them, is an extraordinary disablement ("incapacitas quid extraordinarium haberi debet" Pompedda, M.: "Incapacitas Adsumendi Obligationes Matrimonii Essentiales" (Periodica LXXV (1986) 138-140), which can only occur in the case of a gravely handicapped person who, as a result, is deprived of the natural right to marry (c.

Canon 1057 and the Object of Matrimonial Consent (Malta lecture Feb. 1992)

webmaster — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:50:53 +0000

"Giving oneself"

The obvious answer to the question "what is the object of matrimonial consent?", is, "marriage itself". Just as obviously, however, this is not very enlightening from the juridic viewpoint which is interested in pinning down the specific, and above all the essential, rights and obligations that consent gives rise to.