# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com
# Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068778:0099
# Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068778:0099?run=74
# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zu Deutschland LH 12, 3, 4
# Folio 50r, page id 00068778:0099
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 51v); this page is its right half.
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=00068778&page=99
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/00068778/jpgs/default/00000099.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 26 lines, status machine
# Lines: 26 recognised, mean confidence 0.98
# Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German.
# Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text.
# Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote".
# After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line.

voluntas tacita reipublicae, potestatisque secularis.
Nec refert, quod simul clericorum et laicorum acti–
bus introducta supponi debeat haec consuetuno. Nam
et clerici alicujus gentis corpus Reipublicae cum
reliquis constituunt, quod plerumque extribus
statibus, clero, nobilitate et statu tertio, quem
vocant, componi solet.
Alterum enemplum hoc est, quod alicubi legepu-
blica introductum est, ut matrimonia liberorum
sine consensu parentum habeantur irrita Con–
stat, ultramontanos (Gallos inprimis) in concilio
Fridentino solicitasse Patres, ut malis illis ob viam
iretur, quibus familiae affligi solent, petulantia
aut malitia liberorum, qui calore aetatis abrepti,
spem suorum fallunt, matrimoniisque imaequalibus
et saepe inhonestis dedecus mutunt sibi, aegre faci–
untsuis. Sed non potuit hoc obtineri a Patribus,
multisque opus suit machinis, ut vel definitio
contra matrimonia clandestina, ine parocho testi-
busque contracta, extorqueretur. Cum ergo finito
Concilio Galli viderent, rem tam Reipublicae ne-
cessariam obtineri non potuisse, usi sunt ipsi jure
a Deo summa potestati cujusque gentis concesso, et
in Comitiis statuum Blesensibus sub HenricoiII.
matrimonia ejusmodi, velut dandestina, irrita atque
manca