Sec. 5. No marriage shall be contracted whilst either of the parties has a former wife or husband living, unless the marriage with such former wife or husband, shall have been dissolved.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 551.5
Bigamy prohibited
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 274 Mich. App. 147 - National Pride at Work, Inc v. Governor (2007)
Most recently applied in National Pride at Work, Inc v. Governor (May 2008)
R.S. 1846, Ch. 83; CL 1857, 3208; CL 1871, 4723; How. 6213; CL 1897, 8592; CL 1915, 11366; CL 1929, 12694; CL 1948, 551.5
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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