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CHAPTER III: INDIVIDUAL DIRIMENT IMPEDIMENTS

Can.1083 §1 A man cannot validly enter marriage before the completion of hissixteenth year of age, nor a woman before the completion of her fourteenth year.

§2 TheEpiscopal Conference may establish a higher age for the lawful celebration ofmarriage.

Can.1084 §1 Antecedent and perpetual impotence to have sexual intercourse, whether on the part of the man or on that of the woman, whether absolute or relative, by its very nature invalidates marriage.

§2 If theimpediment of impotence is doubtful, whether the doubt be one of law or one offact, the marriage is not to be prevented nor, while the doubt persists, is it to be declared null.

§3 Withoutprejudice to the provisions of can. 1098, sterility neither forbids norinvalidates a marriage.

Can.1085 §1 A person bound by the bond of a previous marriage, even if notconsummated, invalidly attempts marriage.

§2 Even though the previous marriage is invalid or for any reason dissolved, it is not thereby lawful to contract another marriage before the nullity or thedissolution of the previous one has been established lawfully and withcertainty.

Can.1086 §1 A marriage is invalid when one of the two persons was baptised in thecatholic Church or received into it and has not by a formal act defected from it, and the other was not baptised.

§2 Thisimpediment is not to be dispensed unless the conditions mentioned in cann. 1125and 1126 have been fulfilled.

§3 If at the time the marriage was contracted one party was commonly understood to bebaptised, or if his or her baptism was doubtful, the validity of the marriageis to be presumed in accordance with can. 1060, until it is established withcertainty that one party was baptised and the other was not.

Can.1087 Those who are in sacred orders invalidly attempt marriage.

Can.1088 Those who are bound by a public perpetual vow of chastity in a religious institute invalidly attempt marriage.

Can.1089 No marriage can exist between a man and a woman who has been abducted, or at least detained, with a view to contracting a marriage with her, unless thewoman, after she has been separated from her abductor and established in a safeand free place, chooses marriage of her own accord.

Can.1090 §1 One who, with a view to entering marriage with a particular person, haskilled that person's spouse, or his or her own spouse, invalidly attempts thismarriage.

§2 They also invalidly attempt marriage with each other who, by mutual physical ormoral action, brought about the death of either's spouse.

Can.1091 §1 Marriage is invalid between those related by consanguinity in alldegrees of the direct line, whether ascending or descending, legitimate ornatural.

§2 In thecollateral line, it is invalid up to the fourth degree inclusive.

§3 Theimpediment of consanguinity is not multiplied.

§4 Amarriage is never to be permitted if a doubt exists as to whether the partiesare related by consanguinity in any degree of the direct line, or in the second degree of the collateral line.

Can.1092 Affinity in any degree of the direct line invalidates marriage.

Can.1093 The impediment of public propriety arises when a couple live together after an invalid marriage, or from a notorious or public concubinage. Itinvalidates marriage in the first degree of the direct line between the man and those related by consanguinity to the woman, and vice versa.

Can.1094 Those who are legally related by reason of adoption cannot validly marryeach other if their relationship is in the direct line or in the second degreeof the collateral line.