| ### QUESTION 45 ### OF THE MARRIAGE CONSENT CONSIDERED IN ITSELF ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### In the next place we have to consider the consent; and the first point to discuss is the consent considered in itself; the second is the consent confirmed by oath or by carnal intercourse; the third is compulsory consent and conditional consent; and the fourth is the object of the consent. #### Under the first head there are five points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether the consent is the efficient cause of matrimony? #### (2) Whether the consent needs to be expressed in words? #### (3) Whether consent given in words expressive of the future makes a marriage? #### (4) Whether consent given in words expressive of the present, without inward consent, makes a true marriage outwardly? #### (5) Whether consent given secretly in words expressive of the present makes a marriage? ####  |