| A further reason is that the Church claims jurisdiction over such mixed marriages, institutes diriment impediments to them, and grants dispensations. |
| Of course this is notwithstanding that failure to receive dispensation from form invalidates marriages where diriment impediments are not present. |
| The simple vow of chastity made by the scholastics is a diriment impediment of matrimony. |
| Further, Of these diriment impediments some are temporary, as defect of age, and some are perpetual, such as Holy Orders. |
| The reason for this is that a prior marriage is only a diriment impediment to marriage, when it is truly valid. |
| If a diriment impediment exists and consent is exchanged, no marriage is contracted. |
