Validation of Marriage

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Validation of marriage or convalidation of marriage is, in Roman Catholic canon law, making a putative marriage a valid one, after the removal of an impediment, or its dispensation, or the removal of defective consent. Once a putative marriage has been validated, it cannot be annulled. If the impediment to the marriage was a defective consent in one or both parties, a simple renewal of consent can effect validation. When, however, matrimony is invalid because of a diriment impediment, it may be revalidated by simple dispensation or by that known as Sanatio in Radice.