bigamy
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
double marriage · two wives
in the texts
De Monogamia
The practice of taking a second wife, treated as morally problematic
But where the first crime, murder, was dedicated in fratricide, no crime was so fit to hold the second place as a double marriage.
But if afterwards he was changed into both—into bigamy by the concubinage of the handmaid, and into circumcision by the seal of the testament—you cannot acknowledge him as father except then, when he believed God, since you are his son according to faith, not according to the flesh.
Law in a Free State
The state of being married to more than one person at once, raised as a hypothetical consequence of consistently enforcing all promises relating to sexual connection.
That is to say, would they not only tolerate bigamy, but also enforce it, in case the second woman could prove the promise?