Legislations regarding bigamy

  

Date Posted: 6/30/2012 8:05:49 AM

Posted By: FREOLAN  Membership Level: Gold  Total Points: 2305

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Marriage is holy and devotion to the pledges made to bind the two parties. The ring is a kind of reminder of this pledge.
Because the tabernacle, the law provides for criminal offenses and penalties related to weddings.First, any person who declares, certifies, or provides any false information, which determines the validity of the ordinance, the criminal offense.Likewise, if a man wants to marry to prevent the impression that the contribution is required by law or stated that there is no legal impediment to such a union, he is guilty of an offense and liable for imprisonment up to two years.
Moreover, the Act makes it an offense for a person impersonating a marriage officer and perform a task, knowing that he / she is not entitled to do so.
Such a person is guilty of an offense and may be imprisoned for up to five years. It is also a criminal offense to willfully ignore the obligation to fill or transfer the certificate that the marriage is legitimate person.
In addition, one sinner who impersonates if any other person, marriage, or under a false name / description, with the intent to deceive the other party to the marriage.
Finally, the crime of bigamy, which was inspired by the colonial masters.For them, the nuclear family consists of members, while the family is an African setting, the extended family.Essentially, the principle of monogamy was designed with our laws, while polygamy was customary.Therefore, the Act makes it an offense for any person subject to marriage marriage ceremony, when the current is still there. The bigamy punishment of imprisonment up to five years.
Note: The offense of bigamy does not arise when living in a marriage is terminated, or the death or divorce. The parties to present the death certificate, divorce decree or the registrar of marriage shows that

the previous marriage no longer exists.

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