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relative impediment
noun
Law.
- a fact or circumstance that disqualifies from lawful marriage persons who are closely related.
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Marriage of a Roman Catholic with a baptised non-Catholic constitutes a "relative" impediment and needs a special dispensation and provisoes, such as a guarantee to bring up the children in the Roman faith to give it validity.
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