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A legal second marriage after the termination of a first marriage (as by death or divorce of the spouse).

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  • In the case of trigamy and polygamy they laid down the same rule, in proportion, as in the case of digamy; namely one year for digamy
  • It is rather the object than the pretext which must be taken into account, but it is clear that she is exposed to the punishment of digamy.
  • Tertullian, for example, writing at the beginning of the third century says: "Among us the prescript is more fully and more carefully laid down, that they who are chosen into...
  • The punishment appointed for digamy may suffice.
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