ANGUSTIA LOCI. — It is one of the canonical causes admitted for the granting of a dispensation from matrimonial impediments (especially from the impediments of consanguinity, affinity, and spiritual or legal cognation). It exists when the village or hamlet where the bride-to-be (not the man) has her domicile has no more than 300 families, that is, approximately 1,500 inhabitants.
Exceptionally, it may also be found in more populous places if the woman’s kinship is so extensive that she cannot easily find a husband of equal social standing outside II. In places of mixed religion, the number of Catholic inhabitants is taken into account. Vittorio Bartoccetti