| ### QUESTION 52 ### OF THE IMPEDIMENT OF THE CONDITION OF SLAVERY ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the impediment of the condition of slavery. Under this head there are four points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether the condition of slavery is an impediment to matrimony? #### (2) Whether a slave can marry without his master's consent? #### (3) Whether a man who is already married can make himself a slave without his wife's consent? #### (4) Whether the children should follow the condition of their father or of their mother? ####  |