A09377:192
Christian economyChristian oeconomie
Christian economy: or, A short survey of the right manner of erecting and ordering a family according to the scriptures. First written in Latin by the author M. W. Perkins, and now set forth in the vulgar tongue, for more common use and benefit, by Tho. Pickering Bachelor of Divinity.Christian oeconomie: or, A short survey of the right manner of erecting and ordering a familie according to the scriptures. First written in Latine by the author M. W. Perkins, and now set forth in the vulgar tongue, for more common vse and benefit, by Tho. Pickering Bachelar of Diuinitie.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston, 1609
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
II. Case. But how if consent be past, and in process of time it appears to the espoused persons, that they have erred, either in choice, or consent, or both?
II. Case. But how if consent bee past, and in processe of time it appeares to the espoused persons, that they haue erred, either in choice, or consent, or both?
Answ. There is a three-fold error in consent; the one of the person, the other of the ability, or estate of the person; the third of the quality.
Answ. There is a three-fold error in consent; the one of the person, the other of the abilitie, or estate of the person; the third of the qualitie.
Error in respect of the person, is, when one person is taken for another; or when the contract is made between two, whereof the one was taken to be such a party, as afterwards he proved not to be. Now where this error is committed, it is a plain case, there was no consent; and therefore the contract, upon certain knowledge thereof, is quite frustrate. For the knowledge of the party is the ground of consent, and belongs consequently to the very substance of marriage.
Error in respect of the person, is, whē one person is taken for another; or whē the contract is made betweene two, whereof the one was taken to be such a partie, as afterwards he proued not to be. Now where this error is committed, it is a plaine case, there was no consent; and therefore the contract, vpon certaine knowledge therof, is quite frustrate. For the knowledge of the partie is the ground of consent, and belongs consequently to the very substance of mariage.