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Canon law and annulments

The role of canon law in anchoring annulments, particularly Canon 1095's trio: lack of sufficient use of reason, grave lack of discretion, or incapacity to assume essential marital obligations.

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Differences between lack of consent and simulation of consent in canon law

Canon law treats consent not merely as a formal utterance but as the substantive act that creates marriage; when that act is defective the marriage can be declared null, and two principal species of d...