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Tribunal Activities Overview
Activities of the Major Archiepiscopal Tribunal and the Lower tribunals in the year 2005
Annual report on the state and activity of the major archiepiscopal ordinary tribunal for the year 2006
Activity of the Tribunal in Second Instance
Activity of the Tribunal in Third & Subsequent Instances
 

Activity of the Tribunal in Second Instance

CAUSES OF MATRIMONIAL NULLITY
HANDLED AFTER AN ORDINARY PROCESS IN FIRST INSTANCE.

    Number
1.  Causes pending at the beginning of the year:                                            05
2.  Causes introduced this year: 83
3.  Decrees of ratification (total number):  78
4.  Grounds of nullity considered in the decrees:
(If a decision considered several grounds of nullity, these are to be indicated separately; thus the total number of decisions under 4 may be greater than that under 3)
 
  CCEO c. 801 (Impotence): 01
  CCEO c. 818,1° (Lack of use of reason):  01
  CCEO c. 818,2° (lack of due discretion):  03
  CCEO c. 818,3° (Inability to assume):  20
  CCEO c. 820§2 (Error of Quality): 18
  CCEO c. 821 (Fraud):  05
  CCEO c. 824§2 (Simulation total): 03
  CCEO c. 824§2 (Intention against fidelity): 12
  CCEO c. 824§2 (Intention against children):  01
  CCEO c. 824§2 (Intention against good of the spouses): 05
  CCEO c. 824§2 (Intention against sacramentality): 01
  CCEO c. 825 (Force and fear):  14
  CCEO c. 826 (Condition):     01
5.  Sentences given (after an ordinary examination):  06
  a) In favour of nullity ("constat de nullitate", at least on one ground) : 04
  b) In favour of the bond ("non constat de nullitate" : 02 on every ground alleged) 02
6. Grounds of nullity considered in the sentences  
  (if a sentence considered several grounds of nullity, these are to be indicated separately; thus the number of decisions under 6 may be greater than the sum of 5a and 5b)  
   

AFFIRMATIVE
(constat de nullitate)

NEGATIVE
(non constat de nullitate)

 
CCEO c. 801 (Impotence) --      01
  CCEO c. 801 (Impotence) --  01  
  CCEO c. 818 n.3 (Inability to assume) 03 02  
  CCEO c. 820 § 2 (Error of Quality) 04 --  
  CCEO c. 824§2 (Intention against fidelity) 02 01  
  CCEO c. 824§2 (Intention against children) 01 01  
  CCEO c. 825 (Force and Fear)  -- 03  
         
7.

Causes abandoned:

 
     a) Through renunciation    nil
     b) Through abatement (Peremptio)     nil 
8. Causes pending at the end of the year  04
 

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