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Polygamy - The Crime, Defenses, Origins Of Anti-polygamy Laws, Further Readings

The offense of willfully and knowingly having more than one wife or husband at the same time. The offense of willfully and knowingly entering into a second marriage while validly married to another individual is bigamy.

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