plural marriage
plural marriage. 1. MARRIAGE(1). 2. POLYGAMY.
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plural marriage
A marriage in which one spouse is already married to someone else; a bigamous or polygamous union; POLYGAMY. [Cases: Marriage 11. C.J.S. Marriage § 18.]
plural wife
One of two or more women married simultaneously to the same man in a polygamous marriage.
polygamy
polygamy (p[schwa]-lig-[schwa]-mee), n. 1. The state or practice of having more than one spouse simultaneously. — Also termed simultaneous polygamy; plural marriage. [Cases: Bigamy 1. C.J.S. Bigamy §§ 2–6, 8.] 2. Hist. The fact or practice of having more than one spouse during one’s lifetime, though never simultaneously. • Until the third century, polygamy included
wife
wife. A married woman; a woman who has a lawful husband living. common-law wife. 1. The wife in a common-law marriage; a woman who contracts an informal marriage with a man and then holds herself out to the community as being married to him. See common-law marriage under MARRIAGE(1). 2. Archaic. Loosely, a concubine. plural