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gree of the collateral line, is invalid. Canon 97 declares 

 that the impediment of affinity arises only from a valid 

 marriage, whether consummated or not. The former im- 

 pediment of affinity from sinful intercourse is dropped. 



13. Public decorum is another diriment impediment 

 (canon 1078). It may arise from an invalid marriage, 

 whether consummated or not, or from public and notori- 

 ous concubinage. The law forbids and annuls a mar- 

 riage between such a man and the woman's blood rela- 

 tions in the first and second degree of the direct line, and 

 vice versa. 



14. Besides the diriment impediments of bodily rela- 

 tionship mentioned in the last three numbers, there is also 

 a spiritual relationship (canons 1079, 768), which exists 

 (a) between the one who baptizes and the person bap- 

 tized, and (b) between the one baptized and his or her 

 sponsor. This relationship is not contracted if Baptism 

 is given conditionally, unless the same sponsor again acts 

 in the ceremony of solemn Baptism (canon 763). 



15. Another diriment impediment (canon 1080) is that 

 of legal relationship arising from adoption. It consti- 

 tutes a diriment impediment only where it is so regarded 

 by the civil law. Thus if the civil law should declare the 

 marriage of an adopted child with a natural child of the 

 same family invalid, it would be invalid also in the eyes 

 of the Church ; not so, however, if the laws of the State 

 in which the marriage takes place admit such marriages 

 as valid. 



16. The impediment of clandestinity is thus defined in 

 canon 1094: " Only those marriages are valid which are 

 contracted before the parish priest, or the Ordinary of 

 the diocese, or a priest delegated by either of these, and 

 at least two witnesses." 



