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The Sanctifying Function of the Church » The Sacraments » Marriage » Diriment impediments in general
Canon 1073. A diriment impediment renders a person incapable of validly contracting a marriage.

Impedimentum dirimens personam inhabilem reddit ad matrimonium valide contrahendum.
Canon 1074. An impediment is said to be public, when it can be proved in the external forum; otherwise, it is occult.

Publicum censetur impedimentum, quod probari in foro externo potest; secus est occultum.
Canon 1075. §1 Only the supreme authority in the Church can authentically declare when the divine law prohibits or invalidates a marriage.

§2 Only the same supreme authority has the right to establish other impediments for those who are baptised.

§1. Supremae tantum Ecclesiae auctoritatis est authentice declarare quandonam ius divinum matrimonium prohibeat vel dirimat.

§2. Uni quoque supremae auctoritati ius est alia impedimenta pro baptizatis constituere.
Canon 1076. A custom which introduces a new impediment, or is contrary to existing impediments, is to be reprobated.

Consuetudo novum impedimentum inducens aut impedimentis exsistentibus contraria reprobatur.
Canon 1077. §1 The local Ordinary can in a specific case forbid a marriage of his own subjects, wherever they are residing, or of any person actually present in his territory; he can do this only for a time, for a grave reason and while that reason persists.

§2 Only the supreme authority in the Church can attach an invalidating clause to a prohibition.

§1. Ordinarius loci propriis subditis ubique commorantibus et omnibus in proprio territorio actu degentibus vetare potest matrimonium in casu peculiari, sed ad tempus tantum, gravi de causa eaque perdurante.

§2. Vetito clausulam dirimentem una suprema Ecclesiae auctoritas addere potest.
Canon 1078. §1 The local Ordinary can dispense his own subjects wherever they are residing, and all who are actually present in his territory, from all impediments of ecclesiastical law, except for those whose dispensation is reserved to the Apostolic
See.

§2 The impediments whose dispensation is reserved to the Apostolic See are:

1° the impediment arising from sacred orders or from a public perpetual vow of chastity in a religious institute of pontifical right

2° the impediment of crime mentioned in can. 1090.

§3 A dispensation is never given from the impediment of consanguinity in the direct line or in the second degree of the collateral line.

§1. Ordinarius loci proprios subditos ubique commorantes et omnes in proprio territorio actu degentes ab omnibus impedimentis iuris ecclesiastici dispensare potest, exceptis iis, quorum dispensatio Sedi Apostolicae reservatur.

§2. Impedimenta quorum dispensatio Sedi Apostolicae reservatur sunt:

1° impedimentum ortum ex sacris ordinibus aut ex voto publico perpetuo castitatis in instituto religioso iuris pontificii;

2° impedimentum criminis de quo in can. 1090.

§3. Numquam datur dispensatio ab impedimento consanguinitatis in linea recta aut in secundo gradu lineae collateralis.
Canon 1079. §1 When danger of death threatens, the local Ordinary can dispense his own subjects, wherever they are residing, and all who are actually present in his territory, both from the form to be observed in the celebration of marriage, and from each and every impediment of ecclesiastical law, whether public or occult, with the exception of the impediment arising from the sacred order of priesthood.

§2 In the same circumstances mentioned in §1, but only for cases in which not even the local Ordinary can be approached, the same faculty of dispensation is possessed by the parish priest, by a properly delegated sacred minister, and by the priest or deacon who assists at the marriage in accordance with can. 1116 §2.

§3 In danger of death, the confessor has the power to dispense from occult impediments for the internal forum, whether within the act of sacramental confession or outside it.

§4 In the case mentioned in §2, the local Ordinary is considered unable to be approached if he can be reached only by telegram or by telephone.

§1. Urgente mortis periculo, loci Ordinarius potest tum super forma in matrimonii celebratione servanda, tum super omnibus et singulis impedimentis iuris ecclesiastici sive publicis sive occultis, dispensare proprios subditos ubique commorantes et omnes in proprio territorio actu degentes, excepto impedimento orto ex sacro ordine presbyteratus.

§2. In eisdem rerum adiunctis, de quibus in §1, sed solum pro casibus in quibus ne loci quidem Ordinarius adiri possit, eadem dispensandi potestate pollet tum parochus, tum minister sacer rite delegatus, tum sacerdos vel diaconus qui matrimonio, ad normam can. 1116, §2, assistit.

§3. In periculo mortis confessarius gaudet potestate dispensandi ab impedimentis occultis pro foro interno sive intra sive extra actum sacramentalis confessionis.

§4. In casu de quo in §2, loci Ordinarius censetur adiri non posse, si tantum per telegraphum vel telephonum id fieri possit.
Canon 1080. §1 Whenever an impediment is discovered after everything has already been prepared for a wedding and the marriage cannot without probable danger of grave harm be postponed until a dispensation is obtained from the competent authority, the power to dispense from all impediments, except those mentioned in can. 1078 §2, n. 1, is possessed by the local Ordinary and, provided the case is occult, by all those mentioned in can. 1079 §§2-3, the conditions prescribed therein having been observed.

§2 This power applies also to the validation of a marriage when there is the same danger in delay and there is no time to have recourse to the Apostolic See or, in the case of impediments from which he can dispense, to the local Ordinary.

§1. Quoties impedimentum detegatur cum iam omnia sunt parata ad nuptias, nec matrimonium sine probabili gravis mali periculo differri possit usquedum a competenti auctoritate dispensatio obtineatur, potestate gaudent dispensandi ab omnibus impedimentis, iis exceptis de quibus in can. 1078, §2, n. 1, loci Ordinarius et, dummodo casus sit occultus, omnes de quibus in can. 1079, §§2-3, servatis condicionibus ibidem praescriptis.

§2. Haec potestas valet etiam ad matrimonium convalidandum, si idem periculum sit in mora nec tempus suppetat recurrendi ad Sedem Apostolicam vel ad loci Ordinarium, quod attinet ad impedimenta a quibus dispensare valet.
Canon 1081. The parish priest or the priest or deacon mentioned in can. 1079 §2, should inform the local Ordinary immediately of a dispensation granted for the external forum, and this dispensation is to be recorded in the marriage register.

Parochus aut sacerdos vel diaconus, de quibus in can. 1079, §2, de concessa dispensatione pro foro externo Ordinarium loci statim certiorem faciat; eaque adnotetur in libro matrimoniorum.
Canon 1082. Unless a rescript of the Penitentiary provides otherwise, a dispensation from an occult impediment granted in the internal nonsacramental forum, is to be recorded in the book to be kept in the secret archive of the curia. No other dispensation for the external forum is necessary if at a later stage the occult impediment becomes public.

Nisi aliud ferat Paenitentiariae rescriptum, dispensatio in foro interno non sacramentali concessa super impedimento occulto, adnotetur in libro, qui in secreto curiae archivo asservandus est, nec alia dispensatio pro foro externo est necessaria, si postea occultum impedimentum publicum evaserit.

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