ST Suppl., q. 45
Of the Marriage Consent Considered in Itself
Supplement — compiled posthumously from Aquinas's early Sentences commentary
In the next place we have to consider the consent; and the first point to discuss is the consent considered in itself; the second is the consent confirmed by oath or by carnal intercourse; the third is compulsory consent and conditional consent; and the fourth is the object of the consent.
Under the first head there are five points of inquiry:
(1) Whether the consent is the efficient cause of matrimony?
(2) Whether the consent needs to be expressed in words?
(3) Whether consent given in words expressive of the future makes a marriage?
(4) Whether consent given in words expressive of the present, without inward consent, makes a true marriage outwardly?
(5) Whether consent given secretly in words expressive of the present makes a marriage?
Articles
- a. 1Whether consent is the efficient cause of matrimony?
- a. 2Whether the consent needs to be expressed in words?
- a. 3Whether consent given in words expressive of the future makes a marriage?
- a. 4Whether, in the absence of inward consent, a marriage is made by consent given in words of the present?
- a. 5Whether consent given secretly in words of the present makes a marriage?