16-6-21. Marrying a bigamist.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(a)
An unmarried man or woman commits the offense of marrying a bigamist when he marries a person whom he knows to be the wife or husband of another.#
(b)
It shall be an affirmative defense that the prior spouse of the bigamist has been continually absent for a period of seven years, during which time the accused did not know the prior spouse of the bigamist to be alive, or that the accused reasonably believed the bigamist was eligible to remarry.#
(c)
A person convicted of the offense of marrying a bigamist shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Laws 1833, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 814; Code 1863, § 4417; Code 1868, § 4458; Code 1873, § 4532; Code 1882, § 4532; Penal Code 1895, § 379; Penal Code 1910, § 370; Code 1933, § 26-5604; Code 1933, § 26-2008, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

Cross references

Marriage generally, T. 19, C. 3.

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Text read from t16-ch1-6-(v14)-2019-pdf.pdf, Volume V14, 2019 edition, page 1259; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7e331f0ca7d3.