Precepts of the Church, First derived from natural and divine as well as ecclesiastical law, 2575 a; affirmative and negative parts of First Precept, 2576; how Mass must be heard, 2577; external and bodily assistance, 2577 a; internal or mental assistance requires actual or virtual intention of will, 2577 b; the necessary attention, 2577 b; time and place of Mass, 2578; servile works, 2579; forensic and commercial labors forbidden, 2579 b; liberal works tolerated, 2580 b; definition of common works, 2581 a; doubtful works, 2581 b; lawfulness of hiring non-Catholics to do servile work, 2582; obligation of First Precept, 2583; excuses from observance of First Precept, 2584; scope of Second Precept, 2586; definition of flesh meat, 2586 a; broth and condiments, 2586 c; obligation of Second Precept, 2587 21; exceptions to the obligation, 2587 c; the obligation of fasting, 2588 sqq.; scope of Third Precept, 2590; subject and matter of Third Precept, 2590 a; time for fulfillment of Third Precept, 2590; origin and gravity of Third Precept, 2591; scope of Fourth Precept, 2592; origin and gravity of Fourth Precept, 2593 a; Fifth Precept, 2594; Sixth Precept of the Church, 2594.
Prescription, title to private ownership, 1872 b; conditions for valid prescription, 1875; may terminate the obligation of contract, 1889 b.
Presumption, sin of, 1075 sqq.; definition, 1078; objects of, 1079; comparison with temptation of God and blasphemous hope, 1081; malice of, 1082; gravity compared with other sins, 1083; presumption and unbelief, 1084; presumption takes away virtue of hope, 1085; causes of, 1091; vice against greatness of soul, 2450 a.
Presumption of a Pact, 652.
Pretence, see Simulation.
Price, just and unjust, see Fraud.
Pride, as origin of discord, 1354; origin of contention, 1362; cause of contumely, 2017 a; definition of pride, 2557; acts of pride, 2558 a; sinfulness of pride, 2559 a; pride compared with other sins, 2560 n; pride mother of the seven capital sins, 2560 c.
Principles, first and secondary, 300 a; reflex, see Reflex Principles.
Prison, escape from, lawfulness, 1982 b.
Prisoners, treatment during war, 1412, 1417.