| If a diriment impediment exists and consent is exchanged, no marriage is contracted. |
| However, if after a marriage, a couple divorces and they can prove that a diriment impediment existed at the moment of consent, the marriage is declared null. |
| Further, Of these diriment impediments some are temporary, as defect of age, and some are perpetual, such as Holy Orders. |
| The Second Lateran Council seems to have enacted the first written law making sacred orders a diriment impediment to marriage for the universal Church. |
| On its completion the novice makes the usual vows of religion, the simple vow of chastity in the Society having the force of a diriment impediment to matrimony. |
| Respondent Judge knew or ought to know that a subsisting previous marriage is a diriment impediment, which would make the subsequent marriage null and void. |
