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Legal definition of Bigamy

legal definition of Bigamy

 

Bigamy is an act or conduct of marrying another person while still having valid and subsisting marriage. In other words If A is having subsisting marriage with B, and while such subsistence of marriage he or she marries with another person C, this shall be called bigamy.

Such kind of marriage (Bigamy) is void and is a crime.

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