Meanings (ES + gloss)
bigamia
The state of having two (legal or illegal) spouses simultaneously.
The missionaries have prepared a sort of penal tariff to facilitate judicial proceedings. [...] The judge being provided with a book, in which all these matters are cunningly arran…
This is a peculiar privilege of the clergy, that sentence of death can never be passed upon them for any number of manslaughters, bigamies, simple larcenies, or other clergyable of…
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