The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-09-28
MARRIAGE DECREE.
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". The parish priest and the ordinary of the
place validity assist at marriage:
% Only from the day they have taken pos
session of the benefce entered upon their Office,
unless they have been by a public decree excommu-
nicated by name or suspended from the Office
% Only within the limits of their territory,
within which they assist validity at marriages not
only of their own subjects, but also of those not
subject to them;
60 Provided when invited and asked, and not
compelled by violence or by grave fear, they de-
mand and receive the consent of the contracting
parties.
V. They assist lcitly:
% When they have legitmately ascertained
the free state of the contracting parties, having
duly complied with the conditions laid down by
the law;
(2) When they have ascertained that one of
the contracting parties has domicile at least
has lived for a month in the place where the mar
riage takes place;
60 If this condition be lacking the parish
priest and the ordinary of the place, to assist lie
lily at a marriage REQUIRE the permission of the
parish priest the ordinary of of the con-
tracing parties, unless it be a of grave
cessity, which excuses from this permssion
"a Concerning persons without fixed abode
(vagos), except in of necessity it is not law
full for parish priest to assist at their marriage
until they report the matter to the ordinary to
a priest delegated by him and obtain permission to
assist;
90 In every case let it be held as the rule
that the marriage is to be celebrated before the
parish priest of the bride, unless some just
excuses from this
VI. The parish priest and the ordinary of the
place may grant permission to another priest spec
flied and certain to assist at marriages within the
limits of their district.
The delegated priest, IN order to assist validly
and licitly is bound to observe the limits of his
mandate and the rules laid down above in "
and Y, for the parish priest and the ordinary of
the place.
VII. When danger of death is imminent and
where the parish priest the ordinary of the place
or priest delegated by either of these cannot be
had in order to provide for the relief of conscience
and (should the case require it) for the legitima
ton of offspring, marriage may be contracted val
idly and hctly before any priest and two witnesses.
VIII. Should it happen that in any district the
parish priest or the ordinary of the place or
priest delegated by either of them before whom
marriage be celebrated, is not to be had, and
that this condition of things has lasted for month
marriage may be validity and icitly entered upon
by the formal declaration of consent made by the
spouses in the presence of two witnesses
*. Cd After the celebration of a marriage
the parish priest he who takes his place is to
write at once in the book of marriages the names
of the couple and of the witnesses, the place and
day of the celebration of the marriage, and the
other details, according to the method prescribed
in the ritual books or by the ordinary; and this
even when another priest delegated either by the
parish priest himself or by the ordinary has as
sisted at the marriage
90 Moreover the parish priest is to note also
in the book of baptsms, that the married person
contracted marriage on such day in his parish.
If the married person has been baptized elsewhere
the parish priest who has assisted at the marriage
is to transmit either directly through the epis-
copal curia the announcement Of the marriage
that has taken place, to the parish priest of the
place where the person was baptized, in order that
the marriage may be inscribed in the book of bap-
tisms
CO Whenever a marriage is contracted in the
manner described in VII and VIII, the priest in
the former case the witnesses in the latter are
bound conformity with the contracting parties to
provide that the marriage be inscribed as soon as
possible in the prescribed books.
X. Parish priests who violate the rules thus
far laid down are to be punished by their ordnar-
les according to the nature and gravity of their
transgresson. Moreover if they assist at the mar
rage of anybody in violation of the rules laid down
in and 8 of No. they are not to appropriate the
stoe-fees but must remit them to the parish priest
of the contracting parties
HI Cd The above laws are binding on all
persons baptized in the Catholic church and on
those who have been converted to it from heresy
or schism (even when either the latter or the for
mer have fallen away afterward from the church,,
whenever they contract sponsalia or marriage with
one another.
% The same laws are binding also on the
same Catholics as above if they contract sponsalia
or marriage with non-Catholics, baptized or unbap-
tiled, even after dispensation has been obtained
from the impediment mixta Religions or disparta-
It's cultus; unless the Holy See decree 1erwise
for some particular place or region.
(3) Non Catholics whether baptized or I'M
baptized, who contract among themselves. are no
where bound to observe the Catholic form of spon-
salia or marriage.
The present decree is to be held as legitmately
published and promulgated by its transmission to
the ordinaries, and its provisions begin to have