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OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ACT 1861 - SECT 57

57. Whosoever, being married, shall marry any other person during the life of
the former husband or wife, whether the second marriage shall have taken place
in England or Ireland or elsewhere, shall be guilty of felony, and being
convicted thereof shall be liable to be kept in penal servitude for any term
not exceeding seven years; ... Provided, that nothing in this section
contained shall extend to any second marriage contracted elsewhere than in
England and Ireland by any other than a subject of Her Majesty, or to any
person marrying a second time whose husband or wife shall have been
continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last
past, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that
time, or shall extend to any person who, at the time of such second marriage,
shall have been divorced from the bond of the first marriage, or to any person
whose former marriage shall have been declared void by the sentence of any
court of competent jurisdiction.

Nothing herein contained to extend to second marriages in the cases herein
mentioned.

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