0 the crime of marrying a person while already legally married to someone else:
1 the act of marrying a person while already legally married to someone else
Moreover, a conviction for bigamy would seem to be extremely difficult to obtain.
American law does this to prevent bigamy by both declaring second marriages impossible and punishing those who attempt to do what is legally impossible.
Consider the issue of bigamy.
I should have thought that one wife was enough for any man especially bearing in mind our bigamy laws.
If she did so she would be committing bigamy.
Do husbands consider it an insult to their fidelity that they are forbidden to commit bigamy?
One of these two constable was proved to have been guilty of forgery, and the other of extremely brutal bigamy.
I see that some crimes have been added which are not extraditable—bigamy, smuggling of precious metals, silver, conspiring to defeat the course of justice.
