Note 1112 — Chapter XV · DIVORCE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES

For bigamy, according to the Great Law, whosoever shall be "Convicted of having two wives or two husbands, att one and the same time shall be imprisoned all their Lifetime in the House of Correction, at hard labour, to the behoof of the former wife and children, or the former husband and children." When one of the persons is single and the other married, the penalty is the same: Linn, op. cit., 110, 111; abrogated and re-enacted in 1693: ibid., 194; and again in substance re-enacted in 1700: Bioren, Laws, I, 2, 6.