| ### QUESTION 54 ### OF THE IMPEDIMENT OF CONSANGUINITY ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must next consider the impediment of consanguinity. Under this head there are four points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether consanguinity is rightly defined by some? #### (2) Whether it is fittingly distinguished by degrees and lines? #### (3) Whether certain degrees are by natural law an impediment to marriage? #### (4) Whether the impediment degrees can be fixed by the ordinance of the Church? ####  |