bigamy
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But with no-fault divorces, a couple could split amiably, without accusing or proving anything like bigamy or fraud or abandonment.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2024
A man who admitted to the "cruel deception" of bigamy has been handed a suspended jail term and placed on curfew.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
Under the Mississippi Constitution, people convicted of 10 specific felonies - including murder, forgery and bigamy - lose the right to vote.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
Eight crimes listed in the 1890 version of the provision - bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement and bigamy - remain as disqualifying offenses today.
From Reuters ● Jun. 30, 2023
Supporters of Adams said that Rachel Jackson was guilty of adultery and bigamy.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
I asked him—a Scotch marriage, or some of those crooked wed-locks on which they found bigamies and illegitimacies.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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