5. Persons bound by canonical vows to chastity.
The proceeding to have such marriages judicially declared as null may be instituted by either spouse, the Public Attorney, or by any interested person.
The action lapses, and the marriage will be confirmed in cases based on abduction, error, force or fear, when the spouses have lived together six months after the error became known, or after the force or fear has ceased.
Divorce.—A divorce in Spain only amounts to what in other countries is called a judicial separation. Accepting the decrees of the Council of Trent as law for Spain, marriage is treated as a sacramental contract which can only be dissolved by death.
The Civil Code, Article 104, states the following causes for divorce:
1. Adultery on the wife’s part.
2. Adultery on the part of the husband, when public scandal or disgrace of the wife is a result.
3. Violence exercised by the husband over the wife in order to force her to abandon her religious faith.
4. Cruelty actually inflicted, or grave acts of contumely.
5. The attempt or proposal of a husband to prostitute his wife.