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How To Use bigamous In A Sentence

• Rachel Jackson's divorce from her first husband was, unknown to her, not yet final when she married Jackson, making the marriage technically bigamous. Gingrich and the History of Negative Campaigns
• However, the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS), where all marriages are registered nationally, removes these bigamous or polygamous marriages from its files, on the assumption that administrative errors have occurred. Netherlands recognizes polygamous marriages of Muslims. Sort of.
• Most prosecutions for bigamy fail because the complainant does not have the proof of the bigamous marriage.
• They want through a bigamous marriage ceremony.
• To enforce the principle of monogamy, in 1985 the Civil Codes stipulated that "bigamous marriages are grounds for nullity.
• If a person attempted to remarry after obtaining an unrecognised foreign divorce - or a church nullity alone - the subsequent ‘marriage’ would be bigamous and void.
• Agent reports flooded into bureau offices complaining that the freed men and women persisted in “the disgusting practice of living together as man and wife without proper marriage,” “living together and calling themselves man and wife as long as it conveniently suits them,” and maintaining bigamous or adulterous relationships. A Renegade History of the United States
• And thus the bigamous marriage was proclaimed, on 27 November 1879," writes Simon Loftus in his book "Puligny-Montrachet. The Grace Kelly of Wines
• There were four cases of monogamy, as well as two bigamous and at least one trigamous relationship in the local population.
• Rather, it only contains the usual bans on bigamous or incestuous marriage.