# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1864_S99
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Theological Axioms. 99

etsi vel mille actui sponsalitio adfuerint testes, etiamsi etiam liberi jure-
jurando sibi invicem obstrinxerint fidem. (Deyling.)

A betrothal entered into with the consent of the parents holds good, even
if they were absent, as a public one; but as a secret one, when the consent
of the parents is lacking, even if a thousand witnesses had been present at
the act of betrothal and even if the children had bound themselves to each
other with an oath of fidelity.

17. Sine parentum consensu contrahentium consensus non est legitimus,
plenus ac justus. (Gerh.)

Without the consent on the part of the parents, the consent of those
contracting the marriage is not lawful, complete, and just.

18. Matrimonia, quae insciis vel invitis parentibus contrahuntur, non
sunt legitima ac rata. (Gerh.)

Marriages that are contracted without the knowledge or against the will
of the parents are not lawful and valid.

19. Juramentum non est vinculum iniquitatis.

An oath does not bind one to wrongdoing.

20. Si parentes jus suum stricte urgere velint, sponsalia liberorum
ipsis insciis et invitis contracta, etiam jurata, ad ipsorum instantiam dissolvi
possunt. (Gerh.)

If parents wish to insist strictly on their right, the betrothals of their
children, contracted without their knowledge and against their will, can be
dissolved at their demand even if they have been sworn to.

21. Clandestina sponsalia, etsi concubitu confirmata, ipso jure sunt
nulla. (Deyling.)

A secret betrothal, although confirmed by cohabitation, is null and void
by the law itself.

22. Quando post clandestinas desponsationes parentum consensus ac-
cedit, tunc non confirmatur per quandam ratihabitionem retro se extenden-
tem id, quod contra Dei mandatum a liberis factum, sed patria potestate de
integro novus contractus inducitur, ut juxta formam divinitus praescriptam
legitima fiat conjunctio. (Gerh.)

When, after a secret betrothal, the parents' consent is added, that which
was done by the children against God's command is not thereby confirmed by
a ratification reaching back retroactively; rather, by parental authority an
entirely new contract is entered into, so that, according to the form
prescribed by God, a lawful union may be accomplished.

23. Sponsalia, quae non pure, sed sub conditione honesta et possibili
contrahuntur, ante conditionis impletionem non pariunt efficacem obligatio-
nem. (Chemnitius.)

A betrothal which is contracted not unconditionally, but under an honorable