In neither the Code of 1917 nor that of 1983 is a definition of the word impotentia to be found. Canon 1068, of the 1917 Code states quite simply. Impotentia antecedens et perpetua, sive ex parte viri sive ex parte mulieris, sive alteri cognita sive non, sive absoluta sive relative, matrimonium ipso naturae iure dirimit. […]