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What does diriment mean?

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  1. (religion) Serving to invalidate an attempted marriage.
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Further, Of these diriment impediments some are temporary, as defect of age, and some are perpetual, such as Holy Orders.
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.
The simple vow of chastity made by the scholastics is a diriment impediment of matrimony.
If a diriment impediment exists and consent is exchanged, no marriage is contracted.
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.
The Second Lateran Council seems to have enacted the first written law making sacred orders a diriment impediment to marriage for the universal Church.

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