0 married to someone while already legally married to someone else, or used to describe a relationship involving someone like this: --
Perhaps a warning could be issued to the man or woman concerned of the penalties attending a bigamous marriage.
These bigamous relationships leave trails of disaster, and we can only do our best to put things right.
The deceitful husband, the bigamous husband, in this way is given a great freedom; a great privilege in the law.
You cannot have legitimate children by a bigamous marriage while the lawful marriage is continuing.
Can the son of the bigamous marriage be heir with the son of the lawful wife?
That means that sometimes there will be bigamous marriages, marriages which involve perjury or marriages of people who have entered this country illegally.
Supposing my noble friend himself was prepared to perjure himself in a notice of marriage and was perfectly prepared to enter into a bigamous union.
His second marriage was, therefore, bigamous, but this did not come to light until after he died.