impedient

Antecedent to the ninth century, however, the canons make no mention of abduction (raptus) as a matrimonial impediment, either diriment or impedient.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

This decree practically did away with the impedient impediment of abduction, which was merged into the impediment of vis et metus.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Congregation of the Sacraments (7 March, 1910), the power to dispense kings or royal princes from impediments, diriment or impedient, is henceforth reserved in a special manner to the Holy See, and all faculties granted heretofore in such cases to certain ordinaries are revoked.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

This unfitness gives rise to an irregularity which is an impediment impedient and not diriment, hence orders conferred in violation of it are valid but illicit.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Heresy constitutes an impedient impediment to marriage with a Catholic (mixta religio) from which the pope dispenses or gives the bishops power to dispense (see IMPEDIMENTS).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Furthermore, the impediment was impedient, not diriment (according to the most common opinion).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

To a mind so disposed externals become, first indifferent, then impedient.

Milton Mark Pattison 1848

In their impedient effects they may therefore be comprehended again in the collective notion of a general friction.

On War — Volume 1 Carl von Clausewitz 1805

+ he can establish diriment and impedient impediments to matrimony.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

On occasions like these, when the public liberty or safety is in peril, it is the duty of every honest statesman to say, with the Roman, "_Non me impedient privatae offensiones, quo minus pro reipublicae salute etian cum inimicissimo consentiam.

Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 Thomas Moore 1815