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

The voting ban affects Mississippi residents convicted of specific felonies, including murder, forgery and bigamy.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 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

Mississippi strips voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including forgery, arson and bigamy.

From Washington Times • Jan. 11, 2023

Rachel’s divorce had not been legally granted at the time of their wedding, so Rachel Robards was still married to her first husband when she married Andrew Jackson, a crime known as bigamy.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis