Assertion: betrothal's marriage | /r/HasProperty | valid
Facets:
value: without a dowry
type: OTHER
value: legally
type: MANNER
value: according to canon law
type: OTHER
value: nonetheless
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: (This is also a reason why the woman's father's permission is necessary for a marriage to be valid, since he could disallow her wedding vow on the first day if he wasn't in agreement with it.)
text: But since the Decretum had also codified Nicholas I's opinion that the couple's consent alone created a marriage, Gratian was forced to recognize that a clandestine marriage was nonetheless still a valid one.
text: The betrothal meant that the marriage was legally valid.
text: Again, according to canon law, the marriage initiated in the betrothal ceremony would be valid but not yet indissoluble.
text: Hence if the sheva berakhot had not been recited and the couple later has sex, the marriage is still valid.
text: The law states that the marriage is valid, but the condition is void; and she may not cease to be a married woman without a divorce or the husband’s death.
text: Note that for either method of late medieval marriage, for the marriage to be valid
text: Only those marriages are valid which are contracted before the pastor or the local Ordinary, or a priest delegated by either of these, as well as at least two witnesses, subject to the rules expressed in the following articles, and with the exception of those which are discussed below in n. VII and VIII.
text: Thus provided with an authoritative, if spurious, pedigree, the principle that no marriage was valid without a dowry acquired ecclesiastical approbation and eventually, in the twelfth century, found its way into the mainstream of canon law when Gratian codified the pseudo-canon of Arles in the Decretum .
text: Thomas Aquinas sums up the church's doctrine succinctly by saying that if the parties give their consent and there is no impediment to the union, a clandestine marriage is valid but also sinful as well as dishonorable, since often at least one of the parties is guilty of fraud.