Monogamy
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The marriage of one wife only, or the state of such as are re strained to a single wife.
Webster.
A Inarriage contracted between ona man and one woman, in exclusion of all the rest of nankind. The term is used in opposition to “bigamy” and “polygamy.”
Wolff, Dr. de la Nat. § 857.