Collected Papers of the Law Faculty of the University of Rijeka

 

SUPPLEMENT

Homage to Academician Lujo Margetić

IMPEDIMENTA IMPEDIENTIA - IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE

Dr. sc. Nenad Hlača, izvanredni profesor 
Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci 
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The Article delineates historical and comparative development of the institute of marriage restrictions. The marriage impediment perform as the specific instrument of legal technique denoting the undesirability of marriage in certain situations without accordingly prescribed family law sanction. Definition of marriage, according to Modestinus, denotes that the moral/religious standards do arise the specific significance for the institute of marriage and the acknowledgment even in consideration of the prerequisites for contracting a valid marriage characterized as the impediments: "Nuptiae sunt coniuctio maris et feminae et consortium omnis vitae, divini et humani iuris communicatio".

Key words: marriage, marriage law, prerequisites for marriage contracting, marriage impediments, marriage restrictions.

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