La vigencia de la Instrucción Dignitas Connubii a la luz del M. P. Mitis Iudex

This article analyses Dignitas Connubii in light of M. P. Mitis Iudex , confirming its value and validity as a procedural «instrument» that enables the complementarity and development of the various institutions that comprise the marriage annulment process. The starting point is the consideration of the Mitis Iudex from the perspective of procedural continuity; in fact, the essential fundamentals of the annulment process have remained unaltered. It is this logic of «legislative procedural continuity» and of «forensic substantive-material continuity» that prompts reference to Dignitas Connubii as an extension to the discipline set out in Codex 1983, to which (based on the assumption of Art. 6 of the Ratio Procedendi ) Canon 1691 § 3 refers. Furthermore, beyond the current regulations, the hermeneutic value of Dignitas Connubii remains unquestionable.