| ### QUESTION 55 ### OF THE IMPEDIMENT OF AFFINITY ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must consider next the impediment of affinity. Under this head there are eleven points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether affinity results from matrimony? #### (2) Whether it remains after the death of husband or wife? #### (3) Whether it is caused through unlawful intercourse? #### (4) Whether it arises from a betrothal? #### (5) Whether affinity is caused through affinity? #### (6) Whether affinity is an impediment to marriage? #### (7) Whether affinity in itself admits of degrees? #### (8) Whether its degrees extend as far as the degrees of consanguinity? #### (9) Whether marriages of persons related to one another by consanguinity or affinity should always be dissolved by divorce? #### (10) Whether the process for the dissolution of like marriages should always be by way of accusation? #### (11) Whether witnesses should be called in such a case? ####  |