Bigamy Act 1603


The act 1 Jas. 1. c. 11, sometimes called the Bigamy Act 1603, the Bigamy Act 1604, the Statute of Bigamy 1603 or the Statute of Bigamy 1604, 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.
Further provision was made by the Bigamy Act 1795.

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed for England and Wales by section 1 of the Offences against the Person Act 1828 and for India by section 125 of the Criminal Law (India) Act 1828.