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Canon law, Latin. One guilty of bigamy. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition In the civil law. A man who was twice married; one who at different times and successively has married two wives. 4 Inst. 88. One who has two wives living. One who marries a widow. Biganras sen trigamus, etc., est qui di versis temporibus et successive duas sen tres nuores habuit. 4 Inst. 88. … [Read more...] about BIGAMUS

The act of beginning or starting a legal action or a suit in equity and which sets forth the plaintiff's cause of action. … [Read more...] about BILL IN EQUITY

A special act of the legislature which inflicts a punishment, less than death, upon persons supposed to be guilty of high offences, Such as; treason and felony, without any conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings. 2 Wood. Law Lect. 625. It differs from a bill of attainder in this, that the punishment inflicted by the latter is death. 2. The Constitution of the … [Read more...] about BILL OF PAINS AND PENALTIES

The criminal offense of willfully and knowingly contracting a second marriage (or going through the form of a second marriage) while the first marriage, to the knowledge of the offender, is still subsisting and undissolved. Com. v. McNerny, 10 Phila. (Pa.) 207; Gise v. Com., 81 Pa. 430; Scoggins v. State, 32 Ark. 213; Cannon v. U. S., 116 U. S. 55, 6 Sup. Ot 287, 29 L. Ed. 561. … [Read more...] about BIGAMY

An instrument in common use and too well known to be misunderstood. It is a bond without condition, sometimes called a single bill, and differs in nothing from a promissory note, but the seal which is affixed to it. 2 Serg. & Rawle, 115. See Read's Pleaders' Assistant, 256, for a declaration setting forth such a bill. Also West's Symboleography, s. 100, 101, for the forms … [Read more...] about BILL OBLIGATORY