De Bigamis
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. Concerning men twice married. The title of the statute 4 Edw. I. St. 3; so called from the initial words of the fifth chapter.
2 Inst, 212, 2 Beeves' Mist, 142.
It contains only six chapters, and from certain pecu Uarities in the mode of its passage, it was at one time doubted whether it was properly an act of parliament; but it has always been received as one. Id, ibid* See Bigamus, Bigamy.