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

| ### Index |

| #### Prologue #### ARTICLE 1. Whether a person contracts affinity through the marriage of a blood-relation? #### ARTICLE 2. Whether affinity remains after the death of husband or wife? #### ARTICLE 3. Whether unlawful intercourse causes affinity? #### ARTICLE 4. Whether affinity is caused by betrothal? #### ARTICLE 5. Whether affinity is a cause of affinity? #### ARTICLE 6. Whether affinity is an impediment to marriage? #### ARTICLE 7. Whether affinity in itself admits of degrees? #### ARTICLE 8. Whether the degrees of affinity extend in the same way as the degrees of consanguinity? #### ARTICLE 9. Whether a marriage contracted by persons with the degrees of affinity or consanguinity should always be annulled? #### ARTICLE 10. Whether it is necessary to proceed by way of accusation for the annulment of a marriage contracted by persons related to each other by affinity or consanguinity? #### ARTICLE 11. Whether in a suit of this kind one should proceed by hearing witnesses in the same way as in other suits? |