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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Public Honesty (Decency) |
 | | In canon law carnal intercourse, licit or otherwise, is the principle of affinity; in Roman law, it is valid marriage, whether consummated or not. |
 | | Public honesty then coincides at times with the affinity of the Romans, at times with their quasi-affinity. |
 | | iii, De Ref. Matr.) the impediment of public honesty arises from a valid betrothal between the male party to the contract and the blood relatives of the woman in the first degree (mother, daughter, sister), and conversely between the woman and the blood relatives of the man in the same degree (father, son, brother). |
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