Apontamento sobre o artigo 16 da Concordata de 18 de maio de 2004 entre a Santa Sé e Portugal
The new Concordat between the Holy See and Portugal solves the problem of the effectiveness of ecclesiastical courts' sentences about the declaration of nullity of canonical marriages and of pontifical respcripts about the dissolution of rata et non consummata marriages in article 16. Apparentl...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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2008
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Revista española de derecho canónico
Year: 2008, Volume: 65, Issue: 164, Pages: 223-241 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Portugal
/ Concordate
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBH Iberian Peninsula SA Church law; state-church law SB Catholic Church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Catholic church Sancta Sedes
B Eheauflösung B Ehenichtigkeitsverfahren B Nullity of marriage B Concordate B Ehevollzug B Portugal B Ehegültigkeit |
| Summary: | The new Concordat between the Holy See and Portugal solves the problem of the effectiveness of ecclesiastical courts' sentences about the declaration of nullity of canonical marriages and of pontifical respcripts about the dissolution of rata et non consummata marriages in article 16. Apparently, it was adopted a mixed system of formal revision and merit revision: in fact, the system continues to be the same of the previous Concordat. The Appeal Court does not even need to inquire if the decision is opposed to the principles of Portugese international public order (because it is unimagniable how can that occur): it only needs to verify if it is a sentence of declaration of nullity of a canonical marriage or a pontifical rescript of dissolution of a ratum et non consummatum marriage, if it comes with the Apostolic Signature Supreme Court's previous verification decree (which assures that the decision is authentic and comes from an ecclesiastical court, and that the principles of parties' equality and of contradictory were observed), and if the decision and the decree appear in an authentic document. Once these verifications made, it orders to register the decision in the marriage (civil) seat. Carried out the registering, the canonical marriage for the civil effects will be, respectively, null or dissolevd |
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| ISSN: | 0034-9372 |
| Contains: | In: Revista española de derecho canónico
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