| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of England |
| Long Title: | An Act to restrain all Persons from Marriage until their former Wives and former Husbands be dead. |
| Year: | 1603 |
| Citation: | 1 Jas. 1. c. 11 |
| Territorial Extent: | England and Wales |
| Royal Assent: | 7 July 1604 |
| Repeal Date: | 1 July 1828 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Offences against the Person Act 1828 and Criminal Law (India) Act 1828 |
| Status: | repealed |
The Act 1 Jas. 1. c. 11,[1] sometimes called the Bigamy Act 1603,[2] the Bigamy Act 1604,[3] the Statute of Bigamy 1603[4] or the Statute of Bigamy 1604,[5] [6] 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 (that is to say, within the jurisdiction of the common law courts as opposed to the ecclesiastical courts).[7]
| Short Title: | Bigamy Act 1795 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of Great Britain |
| Long Title: | An act for rendering more effectual an act, passed in the first year of the reign of King James the First, intituled, "An act to restrain all persons from marriage until their former wives and former husbands be dead." |
| Year: | 1795 |
| Citation: | 35 Geo. 3. c. 67 |
| Territorial Extent: | England and Wales |
| Royal Assent: | 19 May 1795 |
| Repeal Date: | 1 July 1828 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Offences Against the Person Act 1828 |
| Status: | repealed |
| Original Text: | https://books.google.com/books?id=OPkIekjA89oC&pg=PA262 |
| Collapsed: | yes |
Further provision was made by the Bigamy Act 1795 (35 Geo. 3. c. 67).