IV.   Consensus

A Vow is a solemn engagement or undertaking made to the Divine Creator to perform some action, to make some gift or sacrifice in return for special favour.

A Vow made free from coercion, fear or deliberate deception must be fulfilled. A Vow made out of grave and unjust fear or malice is null by the law itself.

A Vow made by oration in the presence of others is always superior to a written Vow, or Vow made in private, even if recorded.

A Vow is solemn if made by oration in the presence of others and if a legitimate superior Person accepts it in the name of a valid Juridic Person; otherwise it is simple.

By its nature a Vow obliges only the person who makes it.

A Vow ceases by the lapse of the time designated to fulfill the obligation, by a substantial change of the matter promised, by the absence of a condition on which the vow depends, by the absence of the purpose of the vow, by dispensation, or by commutation.

No temporal force or action nor Person can dispense or commute Solemn Vows of Supreme Persons.

Only a Supreme Person can dispense or commute Solemn Vows of Superior Persons and all lesser Persons. Only a Superior Person can dispense or commute Solemn Vows of Ordinary Persons and all lesser Persons. Only an Ordinary Person can dispense or commute Solemn Vows of Curator Persons and all lesser Persons. Inferior Persons have no rights nor powers to dispense or commute Solemn Vows.

Excluding a Supreme Person, Simple Vows may be dispensed or commuted by any Superior Person.

As Inferior Persons have no power nor authority to dispense or commute solemn Vows, when any such Vow is breached or any action is made to claim that dispensation or commutation is given, then such an action is a direct injury to the Divine Creator and all law. Therefore any such liability and penalty due immediately befalls the Person who breached their solemn Vow.