bigamy
n . 重婚,重婚罪
重婚,重婚罪
bigamy n 1 :
having two spouses at the same time 2 :
the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred Bigamy \
Big "
a *
my \,
n . [
OE .
bigamie ,
fr .
L .
bigamus twice married ;
bis twice Gr . ?
marriage ;
prob .
akin to Skt .
j [=
a ]
mis related ,
and L .
gemini twins ,
the root meaning to bind ,
join :
cf .
F .
bigamie .
Cf . {
Digamy }.] (
Law )
The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another . --
Wharton .
[
1913 Webster ]
Note :
It is not strictly correct to call this offense bigamy :
it more properly denominated polygamy ,
i .
e .,
having a plurality of wives or husbands at once ,
and in several statutes in the United States the offense is classed under the head of polygamy .
In the canon law bigamy was the marrying of two virgins successively ,
or one after the death of the other ,
or once marrying a widow .
This disqualified a man for orders ,
and for holding ecclesiastical offices .
Shakespeare uses the word in the latter sense .
--
Blackstone . --
Bouvier .
[
1913 Webster ]
Base declension and loathed bigamy . --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "
bigamy ":
beena marriage ,
common -
law marriage ,
companionate marriage ,
concubinage ,
deuterogamy ,
left -
handed marriage ,
levirate ,
leviration ,
love match ,
marriage of convenience ,
monandry ,
monogamy ,
monogyny ,
morganatic marriage ,
picture marriage ,
polyandry ,
polygamy ,
polygyny ,
trial marriage ,
trigamy BIGAMY ,
crim .
law ,
domestic relations .
The willful contracting of a second marriage when the contracting party knows that the first is still subsisting ;
or it is the state of a man who has two wives ,
or of a woman who has two husbands living at the same time .
When the man has more than two wives ,
or the woman more than two husbands living at the same time ,
then the party is said to have committed polygamy ,
but the name of bigamy is more frequently given to this offence in legal proceedings .
1 Russ .
on Cr .
187 .
2 .
In England this crime is punishable by the stat .
1 Jac .
1 ,
c .
11 ,
which makes the offence felony but it exempts from punishment the party whose husband or wife shall continue to remain absent for seven years before the second marriage ,
without being heard from ,
and persons who shall have been legally divorced .
The statutory provisions in the U .
S .
against bigamy or polygamy ,
are in general similar to ,
and copied from the statute of 1 Jac .
1 ,
c .
11 ,
excepting as to the punishment .
The several exceptions to this statute are also nearly the same in the American statutes ,
but the punishment of the offence is different in many of the states .
2 Kent ,
Com .
69 ;
vide Bac .
Ab .
h .
t .;
Com .
Dig .
Justices ,
Sec .
5 ;
Merlin ,
Repert .
mot Bigamie ;
Code ,
lib .
9 ,
tit .
9 ,
1 .
18 ;
and lib .
5 ,
tit .
5 ,
1 .
2 .
3 .
According to the canonists ,
bigamy is three -
fold ,
viz .: (
vera ,
interpretative ,
et similitudinaria ,)
real ,
interpretative and similitudinary .
The first consisted in marrying two wives successively ,
(
virgins they may be ,)
or in once marrying a widow ;
the second consisted ,
not in a repeated marriage ,
but in marrying (
v .
g .
meretricem vel ab alio corruptam )
a harlot ;
the third arose from two marriages indeed ,
but the one metaphorical or spiritual ,
the other carnal .
This last was confined to persons initiated in sacred orders ,
or under the vow Of continence .
Deferriere '
s Tract ,
Juris Canon .
tit .
xxi .
See also Bac .
Abr .
h .
t .;
6 Decret ,
1 .
12 .
Also Marriage .
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