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bigamy definition - legal

n

  1. The crime of marrying a person while legally married to another. The second marriage is void.
  2. In some states, the crime of cohabiting with a person of the opposite sex while legally married to another. See also monogamy and polygamy.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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