In Western ecclesiastical law a diriment impediment invalidates what?
Impediment (canon law) Mass, but should he nonetheless do so the Mass is still considered valid.) Impediments to marriage are classified according to many different criteria. In regard to their effect on the sacrament, impediments are either diriment, which invalidate an attempted marriage, or prohibitive (or impedient), which make a marriage illicit but valid. "Diriment" comes from the Latin word "dirimens" ("separating"), that is, an impediment that means the couple cannot be joined. The 1983 Code of Canon Law does not list prohibitive impediments as such, and thus the distinction between validity and licitness is less clear than in previous formularies. In regard
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