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--The application of the rules for grave matter willalso be at times very difficult on account of uncertainties aboutcircumstances of time, person, etc. But if error cannot beproved, courts will stand for the validity of a contract;(b) fraud, which is error or mistake ab , one recognized bythe Canons or legitimate custom) for giving the temporal thing and thedesire of receiving the spiritual thing is only the remote reason oroccasion of the act. , if one delays a gravely obligatory penance sixmonths, or so long as to be in danger of forgetting it; if one omits tosay a prayer on bended knees when this was chiefly intended by theconfessor).

and uncertain simony, 2330; doubtful cases of simony, 2331; cases inwhich transaction is not simoniacal, 2332; theol --(a) Theperson of the defamer increases the harm when his authority is greater. (b) Virginity does not rank first among all the virtues. anted that the elders, especially theparents, do not expect an apology for trifling cases of disrespect.