# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1864_S100
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100 Theological Axioms.

and possible condition is contracted brings about, before the fulfillment of
the condition, no actual marriage bond.

24. Si conditio extat, rata sunt sponsalia, si deficiat, nihil actum intel-
ligitur. (L. Hartmannus.)

If that which was made the condition has been performed, the betrothal is
valid; if that does not happen, the matter is regarded as not having
happened.

25. Conditionata sponsalia per copulam in matrimonium transeunt.
(Gerh.)

A conditional betrothal becomes a marriage through the copula.

26. Sponsalia clandestina publicis cedunt. (Gerh.)

A secret betrothal yields to a public one.

27. Si sponsalia publica fuerint geminata, posteriora prioribus cedunt.
(Kromayer.)

Where there are several public betrothals, the later yields to the earlier.

28. Non licet pendente conditione alia sponsalia contrahere. (Gerh.)

It is not permitted, before the fulfillment or non-fulfillment of the
condition has been decided, to proceed to another betrothal.

29. Nuptias non concubitus, sed consensus facit. (Witebergenses in
Dedekenno.)

Not cohabitation, but consent, makes the marriage.

30. Si pater urgeat jus patriae potestatis, confirmatum expressa lege
divina Exod. 22, 16., non poterit cogi, ut stupratori filiam elocet. (Gerh.)

If the father insists on his right, confirmed by the express divine law of
Exodus 22:16, he cannot be compelled to give his daughter in marriage to
her seducer.

31. Sponsalia sunt conjugium inchoatum. (Gerh.)

Betrothal is marriage begun.

32. When two persons have, in due and proper form, promised each other
marriage and become publicly betrothed, they cannot or may not renounce
such marriage vows or withdraw from them with one another ex mutuo
dissensu (on the ground of mutual unwillingness), unless such sufficient
causes were present as could also dissolve a marriage already consummated.
(The Wittenberg Faculty, in Dedekennus.)

33. Ad legitimum consensum requiritur, ut sit licitus et non pugnet
cum lege divina et honestis constitutionibus humanis, probabili de causa
conditis. (Hartmann.)

For a lawful consent it is required that it be permissible and not conflict
with the divine law and with honorable human ordinances made for a
sound reason.

(To be continued.)