bigamy

Her argument was that the king - known to his subjects as "Ingonyama", meaning Lion - would be committing the offence of "bigamy" without first "converting" his civil marriage to her into a traditional Zulu marriage.

But with no-fault divorces, a couple could split amiably, without accusing or proving anything like bigamy or fraud or abandonment.

Rachel’s divorce had not been legally granted at the time of their wedding, so Rachel Robards was still married to her first husband when she married Andrew Jackson, a crime known as bigamy.

A man who admitted to the "cruel deception" of bigamy has been handed a suspended jail term and placed on curfew.

Plaintiffs said that the authors of the Mississippi Constitution in 1890 stripped voting rights for crimes they thought Black people were more likely to commit, including forgery, larceny and bigamy.