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Polygamy

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

The having of a plurality of wives or husbands at the same time usually the marriage of a man to more than one woman or the practice of having several wives at the same time opposed to monogamy as the nations of the East practiced polygamy See the Note under Bigamy and cf Polyandry

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