This might help clarify....
Posted by
Stephen (aka Sceire)
Sep 28 '11, 16:05
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The Code of Canon Law is incorporated into the legal system of the VCS by the 1929 Law of the Sources of the Law, one of the six constitutional laws of 1929. Article 11 of the Second Law specifically outlines areas that are regulated solely by canon law. These include marriage, prescription of ecclesiastical property, and gifts and legacies upon death.
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/Globalex/Vatican.htm
and:
Can. 1083 §1. A man before he has completed his sixteenth year of age and a woman before she has completed her fourteenth year of age cannot enter into a valid marriage.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P3Y.HTM
As the Church holds that pre-marital sex is sinful, it would follow that there is no separate Canon Law regarding age of consent for pre-marital sex (at least I haven't been able to find it).
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