bigamous marriage

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• bigamous — big·a·mous / bi gə məs/ adj 1: guilty of bigamy a bigamous spouse 2: involving bigamy a bigamous marriage Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

• marriage — mar·riage / mar ij/ n 1: the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a legal, consensual, and contractual relationship recognized and sanctioned by and dissolvable only by law see also divorce 2: the ceremony… …   Law dictionary

• Bigamous — Big a*mous, a. Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous marriage. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• bigamous — adjective Date: 1851 1. guilty of bigamy < a bigamous man > 2. involving bigamy < a bigamous marriage > • bigamously adverb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• bigamous — [[t]bɪ̱gəməs[/t]] ADJ A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else …   English dictionary

• marriage — Legal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife. Singer v. Kara, 11 Wash.App. 247, 522 P.2d 1187, 1193. Marriage, as distinguished from the agreement to marry and from the act of becoming married, is the legal status, condition, or… …   Black's law dictionary

• marriage — Legal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife. Singer v. Kara, 11 Wash.App. 247, 522 P.2d 1187, 1193. Marriage, as distinguished from the agreement to marry and from the act of becoming married, is the legal status, condition, or… …   Black's law dictionary

• bigamous — big·a·mous || bɪgÉ™mÉ™s adj. pertaining to or characterized by bigamy (marriage to two or more spouses at one time) …   English contemporary dictionary

• bigamous — adjective of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first • Similar to: ↑polygamous • Derivationally related forms: ↑bigamy …   Useful english dictionary

• Christian views on marriage — Orthodox betrothal depicted by Vasily Vladimirovich Pukirev, 1862. Christian views on marriage typically regard it as instituted and ordained by God for the lifelong relationship between one man as husband and one woman as wife, and is to be held …   Wikipedia

• History of civil marriage in the U.S. — Civil marriage has undergone significant changes in the United States since the country s inception: * 1830 Right of married woman to own property in her own name (instead of all property being owned exclusively by the husband) in Mississippi. *… …   Wikipedia