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Bigamy

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

The act of having two wives or husbands at the same time, the one dejure, the other de facto. In the civil and canon law, also the act of having one after the death of the other. The proper word would seem to be polygamy, but bigamy in this sense is generally used.