"Bigamy Act" redirects here. For the legislation that banned bigamy in the United States, see Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act.
United Kingdom legislation
Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Long title
An Act to restrain all Persons from Marriage until their former Wives and former Husbands be dead.
Citation
1 Jas. 1. c. 11
Territorial extent
England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent
7 July 1604
Repealed
1 July 1828
Other legislation
Repealed by
Offences against the Person Act 1828
Status: Repealed
The Act 1 Jas. 1. c. 11,[1] sometimes called the Bigamy Act 1603,[2] the Bigamy Act 1604,[3] the Statute of Bigamy 1603[4] or the Statute of Bigamy 1604,[5][6] was an Act of the Parliament of the Kingdom of England. It created the offence of bigamy as a capital felony. Bigamy had not previously been a temporal offence (that is to say, within the jurisdiction of the common law courts as opposed to the ecclesiastical courts).[7]
United Kingdom legislation
Bigamy Act 1795
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title
An act for rendering more effectual an act, passed in the first year of the reign of King James the First, intituled, "An act to restrain all persons from marriage until their former wives and former husbands be dead."
Citation
35 Geo. 3. c. 67
Territorial extent
England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent
19 May 1795
Repealed
1 July 1828
Other legislation
Repealed by
Offences Against the Person Act 1828
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Further provision was made by the Bigamy Act 1795 (35 Geo. 3. c. 67).
^This Act has never had a short title and is cited by session and chapter.
^Helmholz, The Profession of Ecclesiastical Lawyers, 2019, p 167; Cornish, Banks, Mitchell, Mitchell and Probert, Law and Society in England 1750-1950, 2nd Ed, p xl; (1971) 16 Journal of the Law Society of Scotland 97; Cox, "Bigamy", Turner, A Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, 2017, p 11; Kha, A History of Divorce Law, 2020, p 82; Petterchak, "Polygamy, American Style", Sadique and Stanislas (eds), Religion, Faith and Crime, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, p 284.
^(1969) 21 Federal Practice and Procedure 61
^F H Newark, "The Operation of Nullity Decrees" (1945) 8 Modern Law Review 203 at 212 and 216 (No 4, November 1945) Wiley JSTOR
^Clifford, A History of Private Bill Legislation, 1885, vol 1, pp xxiii & 393; Current Law Statutes Annotated 1977, p 27/13-14.
^As to the year of an Act, see Johnson, Privatised Law Reform, 2018, p 31; Johnson, Parliament, Inventions and Patents, 2018, note 1 to Introduction; Chitty's Statutes of Practical Utility, 6th Ed, 1911, vol 1, title "Act of Parliament", p 28.
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