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The Ordinatio of John Duns Scotus
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Ordinatio. Book 4. Distinctions 14 - 42.
Book Four. Distinctions 14 - 42
Twenty Ninth Distinction
Single Question. Whether Coerced Consent in One or Both of the Contracting Parties Suffice for Contracting True Matrimony
I. To the Question
A. Opinion of Others
1. Exposition of the Opinion

1. Exposition of the Opinion

11. One way of speaking here [Richard of Middleton, Sent. IV d.29 princ.1 q.1] is that no one can be so coerced to consent that his will consents, because the will is not compelled nor can be compelled. But only in a certain respect is anyone coerced by a fear of penalties he wants to avoid. Herefrom the argument is: anyone does sufficiently avoid the penalties he fears by consenting with words exteriorly; and therefore if, over and above the consent that appears in the speaking of the words, he consent interiorly in his mind, he consents with that consent, not from fear. And consequently, the interior consent is free, not coerced, and so it obligates and the matrimony is ratified in the judgment both of God and the Church. But he who consents in his mind but with the words only, since the consent in his mind is not free, such as he does not contract matrimony either in the forum of conscience or in the forum of the Church, because the Church presumes that such as he did not consent.