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title: "Summa Theologica, Second Half"
author: "Thomas Aquinas"
translator: "Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Medieval"
section: 748 of 935
url: https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/748/
cite: "Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologica, Second Half, section 748. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/748/"
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# Summa Theologica, Second Half

*Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province*

Courage and temperance, the states of life, then Christ, the sacraments and the last things.

## 748. Supp. · Question 55: Of the Impediment of Affinity (eleven Articles)

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[¶0] OF THE IMPEDIMENT OF AFFINITY (ELEVEN ARTICLES)

[¶1] We must consider next the impediment of affinity. Under this head there are eleven points of inquiry:

[¶2] (1) Whether affinity results from matrimony?

[¶3] (2) Whether it remains after the death of husband or wife?

[¶4] (3) Whether it is caused through unlawful intercourse?

[¶5] (4) Whether it arises from a betrothal?

[¶6] (5) Whether affinity is caused through affinity?

[¶7] (6) Whether affinity is an impediment to marriage?

[¶8] (7) Whether affinity in itself admits of degrees?

[¶9] (8) Whether its degrees extend as far as the degrees of consanguinity?

[¶10] (9) Whether marriages of persons related to one another by consanguinity or affinity should always be dissolved by divorce?

[¶11] (10) Whether the process for the dissolution of like marriages should always be by way of accusation?

[¶12] (11) Whether witnesses should be called in such a case?