RT Article
T1 Apontamento sobre o artigo 16 da Concordata de 18 de maio de 2004 entre a Santa Sé e Portugal
JF Revista española de derecho canónico
VO 65
IS 164
SP 223
OP 241
A1 Mendonça Correia, Pedro
LA Spanish
YR 2008
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1650509286
AB 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
K1 Katholische Kirche : Sancta Sedes
K1 Konkordat
K1 Ehenichtigkeit
K1 Ehenichtigkeitsverfahren
K1 Ehegültigkeit
K1 Ehevollzug
K1 Eheauflösung
K1 Portugal