# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1864_S98
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98 Theological Axioms.

6. Causa efficiens conjugii est consensus legitimus seu pactio conjugalis.
(Chemnitius.)

The efficient cause of marriage is the lawful consent, or the marriage
contract.

7. Forma conjugii est e consensu legitimo nascens obligatio. (Chemn.)

That which makes marriage marriage is the obligation arising from lawful
consent.

8. Non utile solum, sed et necessarium fuit visum, sponsalia nuptias
praecedere, ut medio temporis intervallo mature dispici posset, num quid
forte sit, quod matrimonii consummationem impediat. (Gerhard.)

It appeared not only useful but also necessary that betrothal should
precede the wedding, so that in the intervening time it might be found out
whether perhaps something existed that would hinder the consummation of the
marriage.

9. Sponsalia institui debent non clandestine, sed in praesentia honesto-
rum testium. (Gerh.)

Betrothals should not be made secretly, but in the presence of honorable
witnesses.

10. Testes non ad formam, sed tantum ad probationem sponsaliorum
requiruntur. (Deylingius.)

Witnesses are not required for the essence [of the betrothal], but only for
the proof of it.

11. Consensus ut sit legitimus, requiritur tum judicii integritas, tum
voluntatis libertas. (Gerh.)

For the consent to be lawful, both soundness of judgment and freedom of
the will are required.

12. Effuge, cum poteris, ne consensisse videaris. (Dedekennus.)

Flee, when you can, lest it seem that you have consented.

13. Sponsalia coacta non sunt sponsalia. (Kromayer.)

A forced betrothal is no betrothal.

14. Consensus parentum requiritur non tantum de honestate, sed etiam
de necessitate. (Gerh.)

The consent of the parents is required not only as a matter of propriety,
but also as a matter of necessity.

15. Tutorum, curatorum, consanguineorum et affinium consensus non
est de necessitate, sed tantum de pietate et honestate, nisi alicubi aliud re-
periatur constitutum. (Deyling.)

The consent of guardians, of curators, and of relatives by blood and by
marriage is not a matter of necessity but of piety and propriety, unless
something else is found established by law somewhere.

16. Sponsalia cum consensu parentum, quamvis absentes fuerint,
inita censentur publica; clandestina autem, ubi parentum consensus deest,