Polyandry
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The civil condition of having more husbands than one; a social order permitting plurality of husbands. BurriU does not mention this term, and defines polygamy as the having more than one wife or husband at the same time. Some other authorities confine polygamy to plurality of wives, and employ polyandry as the complementary term. Bouvier says that polyandry is legalized only in Thibet; therefore, the importance of a distinct name for it is not probably very great. It is noticeable that bigamy is used of marriages of either sex: a woman is said to be guilty of bigamy equally with a man.