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Processes » Certain Special Processes » Matrimonial Processes » Process in the presumed death of a spouse
Canon 1707. §1 Whenever the death of a spouse cannot be proven by an authentic ecclesiastical or civil document, the other spouse is not regarded as free from the bond of marriage until the diocesan Bishop has issued a declaration that death is presumed.

§2 The diocesan Bishop can give the declaration mentioned in §1 only if, after making suitable investigations, he has reached moral certainty concerning the death of the spouse from the depositions of witnesses, from hearsay and from other indications. The mere absence of the spouse, no matter for how long a period, is not sufficient.

§3 In uncertain and involved cases, the Bishop is to consult the Apostolic See.

§1. Quoties coniugis mors authentico documento ecclesiastico vel civili comprobari nequit, alter coniux a vinculo matrimonii solutus non habeatur, nisi post declarationem de morte praesumpta ab Episcopo dioecesano prolatam.

§2. Declarationem, de qua in §1, Episcopus dioecesanus tantummodo proferre valet si, peractis opportunis investigationibus, ex testium depositionibus, ex fama aut ex indiciis moralem certitudinem de coniugis obitu obtinuerit. Sola coniugis absentia, quamvis diuturna, non sufficit.

§3. In casibus incertis et implexis Episcopus Sedem Apostolicam consulat.
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