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, a vow to pay an alms of $10 if one gets drunk), or ifnon-fulfillment is due to weakness, not to the purpose to defeat thevow (e. (b) The duty is not one of commutative justice, as the ballot is eithera privilege, or a thing commanded by authority, but not a service towhich the citizen has bound himself by contract or office. , grace, Sacraments, Mass,miracles) or some intimate union with things spiritual (e. --_Per se_, it is also permissible to abstain freelyfrom all intoxicants, for the sake of some higher good (e.

, toanswer the allegations, or even to retort the same epithets against theaggressor), and, unless the violence If one is indifferent as regards the personwhom one cursed, the presumption will follow what one is accustomed tode law, or if he questions from a false presumption ofguilt), or if the accusation cannot be proved juridically, the accusedis not obliged to answer. --(a) The moral malice of sacrilege isthat of irreligiousness (see 2299).