bigamy
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The state bigamy law won’t necessarily bar West Hollywood from registering relationships inside its two-mile-square borders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026
In 2021, Lai Xiaomin, the former chairman of Huarong - one of China's biggest state-controlled asset management companies - was executed after being found guilty of corruption and bigamy.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2023
Under the Mississippi Constitution, people convicted of 10 specific felonies — including murder, forgery and bigamy — lose the right to vote.
From Seattle 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 Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
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It Takes Two: Bi
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