The act 1 Jas. 1. c. 11,This act has never had a short title and is cited by session and chapter. sometimes called the Bigamy Act 1603,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. the Bigamy Act 1604,(1969) 21 Federal Practice and Procedure 61 the Statute of Bigamy 1603F H Newark, "The Operation of Nullity Decrees" (1945) 8 Modern Law Review 203 at 212 and 216 (No 4, November 1945) Wiley JSTOR or the Statute of Bigamy 1604,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. 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).R v. Taylor 2 All ER 170, CCA
Further provision was made by the Bigamy Act 1795 (35 Geo. 3. c. 67).
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Subsequent developments The whole act was repealed for England and Wales by section 1 of the Offences against the Person Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 31) and for India by section 125 of the Criminal Law (India) Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 74).
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