Noun:

द्विविवाह का प्रथा,

bigamy's Usage Examples:

Suffrage requirements are citizenship in the United States, registration and residence in the state for six months and in the county for thirty days immediately before election, but mental deficiency, conviction of infamous crimes (without restoration to rights of citizenship), bribery or attempt at bribery, bigamy, living in " what is known as patriarchal, plural or celestial marriage," or teaching its validity or belonging to any organization which teaches polygamy,' are disqualifications.

In most of the states, prosecutions for bigamy are barred after the lapse of a certain number of years.

Bigamy (in its modern sense) was thus made felony (i Jac. I.

He objected to Luther's counsel to deny the existence of a second marriage; abused John Frederick, elector of Saxony, for not coming to support him; and caused bigamy to be publicly defended.

His tractate (1542) against the permission of bigamy in the case of Philip of Hesse was not allowed to be printed (the manuscript is in the Heidelberg university library).

1566), he obtained an opinion from Protestant theologians that bigamy was not forbidden by Holy Writ.

When he added bigamy and adultery, Urban II.

The document sanctioning the bigamy of the landgrave was signed by Martin Bucer, Luther and Melanchthon, and is a humiliating paper.

Bigamy was punished in England until the reign of William III.

Poverty excused bigamy on the part of a deserted wife.

Synonyms:

statutory offense, regulatory offense, statutory offence, regulatory offence,

Antonyms:

assortative mating, disassortative mating, separation, exogamy, endogamy,