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[2] When a couple has received a dispensation, the partners may validate the marriage by a simple renewal of consent according to canonical form as a new act of the will.
[10] The sanatio validates a marriage by reason of a consent formerly given, but ineffective because of an impediment.
[10] When the impediment is removed or dispensed, the consent is ipso facto ratified and no renovation is required.
Woestman, Canon Law of the Sacraments for Parish Ministry, Ottawa 2007.