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title: "Summa Theologica, Second Half"
author: "Thomas Aquinas"
translator: "Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Medieval"
section: 785 of 935
url: https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/785/
cite: "Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologica, Second Half, section 785. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/785/"
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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.

## 785. Supp. · Question 64: Of the Things Annexed to Marriage, and First of the Payment of the  Marriage Debt (ten Articles)

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[¶0] OF THE THINGS ANNEXED TO MARRIAGE, AND FIRST OF THE PAYMENT OF THE MARRIAGE DEBT (TEN ARTICLES)

[¶1] In the next place we must consider those things which are annexed to marriage: (1) the payment of the marriage debt; (2) plurality of wives; (3) bigamy; (4) the bill of divorce; (5) illegitimate children.

[¶2] Under the first head there are ten points of inquiry:

[¶3] (1) Whether one spouse is bound to pay the marriage debt to the other?

[¶4] (2) Whether one is sometimes bound to pay without being asked?

[¶5] (3) Whether a wife may demand the debt during the menses?

[¶6] (4) Whether she is bound to pay it at that time?

[¶7] (5) Whether husband and wife are equal in this matter?

[¶8] (6) Whether the one without the other's consent may take a vow that prohibits the payment of the debt?

[¶9] (7) Whether it is forbidden to ask for the debt at any particular time?

[¶10] (8) Whether it is a mortal sin to ask for it at a holy time?

[¶11] (9) Whether it is an obligation to pay it at the time of a festival?

[¶12] (10) Whether weddings should be forbidden at certain times?