A vetitum is a prohibition against a particular behavior or action that is affixed to a party who has received a declaration of nullity from the matrimonial tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church . This prohibition/directive may involve one or both of the parties. A vetitum is imposed to delay the celebration of a future marriage until a given condition has been fulfilled or addressed. Thus, the pastoral purpose of a vetitum is to help an individual and/or a couple address the underlying problems that led to the breakdown of a former marriage union. At times a recommendation or a warning (monitum

Monitum

A monitum is a warning issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to an errant cleric, who is in danger of receiving an additional penalty.-Teilhard de Chardin:...

) may also be made by the tribunal which processes a formal petition for nullity. More generally, a vetitum is any prohibition, in the form of a precept, imposed by an ecclesiastical authority on a particular individual.