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

Circuit Court of Appeals panel ordered the Mississippi secretary of state to stop enforcing a provision in the state constitution that disenfranchises people convicted of specific crimes, including murder, forgery and bigamy.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 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

He often told her that he was going to tell a policeman and have Sissy arrested for bigamy.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith