The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-03-28

cree containing the laws, approved by himself {
sure knowledge and after mature deEberation
which the discipline regarding sponsaha and ma
riage is to be regulated for the future and the &C
ebration of them carried out in sure and order
manner.
In execution, therefore, of the Apostolic ma
date, the Sacred Congregation of the Council !
these letters lays down and DEGREES what follows
CONCERNING sPONSALIA.
|. Only those are considered valid and produc
canonical effects, which have been contracted
writing signed by both the parties and by either IL
parsh-priest or the Ordinary of the place,
least by two witnesses.
In ease one or both the parties be unable t
write, this fact is to be noted in the document All
another witness is to be added who will sign III
writing above, with the parish-priest or the On
binary of the place or the two witnesses.
II. Here and in the following articles by paI
ish-priest is to be understood not only priest lie
Ultimately presiding parish canonlcalt
erected but in regions where parishes are not car
onically erected, the priest to whom the care o
soulssahas been legitimately entrusted in any speci
fed district and who is equivalent to a parish
priest and in missions where the territory has no
yet been perfectly divided, every priest general,
deputed by the superior of the mission for thu
care of souls in any station.
CONCERNING MARRIAGE.
Ill. Only those marriages are valid which arc
contracted before the parishpriest the Ordinary
of the place or priest delegated by either of these,
and at least two witnesses according to the rules
laid down in the following articles and saving the
exceptions mentioned under VII and VIII.
Nv. The parsh-pritst and the Ordinary of the
place validity assist at a marriage:
j only from the day they have taken possession
of the benefce or entered upon their Office, unless
they have been by a public decree communicated
by name suspended from the Office;
i0 only within the limits of their terrifCrv.
within which they assist validly at marriages not
only of their own subjects but also of those not
subject to them
lid provided when invited and asked ard not
compelled by violence or by grave fear, they de-
nand and receive the consent of the contracting
parties
Y. They assist licitly:
y when they have legitimately ascert aimed the
free state of the contracting parties, having duly
complied with the conditions laid down by the law;
I'D when they have ascertained that one of the
contracting parties has domice at least has
lived for a month in the place where the marriage
takes place;
iii) if this condition be lacking the parishpriest
and the Ordinary of the place, to assist Hcitly at
a marriage. require the permission of the parish
priest or the Ordinary of one of the contracting
parties, unless it be of grave necessity, which
excuses from this permssion
ivy concerning persons with fixed abode (vagos)
except in case of necessity it is not lawful for
rarishpriest to assist at their marriage until they
report the matter to the Ordinary or to priest
delegated by him and obtain permission to assist;
VI 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 cause excuses
from this.
VI. The parish-priest and the Ordinary of the
place may grant permission to another priest, spe-
CITED and certain to assist at marriages within the
limits of their district.
The delegated priest, in order to assist validlv
and citly, is bound to observe the limits of his
mandate and the rules laid down above, in " and
V, for the parish-priest and the Ordinary of the
place.
VII. When danger of death is imminent and
where the parish-priest or the Ordinary of the
place or a priest delegated by either of these
not be had, in order to provide for tie relief Of
conscience and SHOULD the case require it, for the
legitimation of offspring, marriage may be con-
tracted vaidly and licitly before any priest and
two witnesses.
VIII. Should it happen that in any district the
or the Ordinary of the place
priest delegated by either of them, before whom
marriage can be celebrated, is not to be had and
that this condition of things has lasted for q
month marriage may be validly and icitly entered
upon by the formal declaration of consent made
bv the spouses in the presence of two witnesses.
TX. j. After the celebration of marriage the
or ne WHO taxes HIS place. 10 W WIlle
at once in the book of marriages the names of the
couple and 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 an
other priest delegated either by the parsh-priest
himself or by the Ordinary has assisted at the mar
riage.
III Moreover the parish-priest is to note also
in the book of baptisms, 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 parsh-priest. of the place
where the person was baptized, in order that the
marriage may be inscribed in the book of baptisms
lid Whenever 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
hat hn he Inscribed