Bigamy.Here are entered works on multiple marriage as a criminal offense. Works on the practice of having more than one spouse are entered under Polygamy. See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.
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Filed under: Bigamy -- DramaFiled under: Bigamy -- Fiction Lady Audley's Secret, by M. E. Braddon
Filed under: Trials (Bigamy) -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800 The Laws Respecting Women, as They Regard Their Natural Rights or Their Connections and Conduct: In Which Their Interests and Duties as Daughters, Wards, Heiresses, Spinsters, Sisters, Wives, Widows, Mothers, Legatees, Executrixes, etc., are Ascertained and Enumerated; Also, the Obligations of Parent and Child, and the Condition of Minors (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1777) (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Marriage with deceased wife's sister Deceased Wife's Sister: Letters By the Rev. D.V. Lucas, M.A. in Reply to the Rev. H. Roe D.D. (Montreal: Gazette, 1882), by Daniel Vannorman Lucas (page images at canadiana.org) The Inheritance of Evil: Or, The Consequence of Marrying a Deceased Wife's Sister, by Felicia Skene (HTML at Indiana) Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister: A Bible Argument, With Facts Long Obscured (Toronto: H. Rowsell, 1871), by A Clergyman (multiple formats at archive.org) Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister: Debates and Proceedings in the House of Commons on Mr. Girouard's Bill (ca.1880), contrib. by Désiré Girouard (page images at canadiana.org) Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister: Letters of a Lady to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ontario (Ottawa: Printed at the Office of the Daily Citizen, 1881), by Gunhilda (multiple formats at archive.org) Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister: Letters to the Editor of the Montreal Gazette in Reply to the Rev. Henry Roe, D.D. (1881), by R. D. McGibbon (multiple formats at archive.org) Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister: the Debates in the Senate and House of Commons of Canada (during the Session of 1880) on the Bill Introduced By Mr. Griouard to Legalize Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister (1880) (page images at canadiana.org) May a Man Marry His Deceased Wife's Sister? (London: Hatchards, ca. 1880), by Mrs. Colin Mackenzie, contrib. by R. Payne Smith A Wife to Her Sister: Being a Treatise in Which the Question, So Long and Warmly Discussed, Whether Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister Is Prohibited Under the Mosaic Law, Is, in a Clear and Precise Manner, Placed Before the English Reader (1878), by Jacob Mair Hirschfelder (multiple formats at archive.org)
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