Polygamy definition:
Being married to multiple wives or husbands at the same time.
Related Terms: Marriage, Polyandry, Bigamy
Being married to more than one person.
Polygamy
n. An illegal practice of having more than one wife or husband during the same time, more precisely having more than two spouses at the same time which is called bigamy.This is considered crime in most states and communities.
Polygamy
Being married to more than one person. Illegal in most countries.
polygamy : the offense of having several and specif. more than two spouses at one time compare bigamy poÂ-lygÂ-aÂ-mous [-mÉ™s] adj ...
polygamy
n. having more than one wife or husband at the same time, usually more than just two (which is "bigamy").
Polygamy:
Marrying more than one person, which is illegal. Compare with bigamy.
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Polygamy was sanctioned in biblical times. Kings and the upper classes were permitted more than one wife (Gen 29:18, 25, 30; Deut 21:15; Judg 8:30; I Kgs 11:1-8; II Chr 11:21).
polygamy among the Mormons, or violation of the trust-deeds under which the property of a church is held).
The end of marriage proves that polygamy, (q. v.) and polyendry, (q. v.) are contrary to the law of nature. Hence it follows that the husband and wife have a mutual and exclusive right over each other.
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.
Polygamy is the proper term; but, by long usage, bigamy has come to mean the state of a man who has two wives, or a woman who has two husbands, at the same time. 4 Bl. Com. 163; 81 Pa. 432, 430; 1 law Quar. Rev. 474-76 (1885).
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