Supreme Court acquits woman of bigamy
The Supreme Court (SC) has acquitted a woman of bigamy, ruling that a person accused of the crime can argue that a previous marriage was void from the…
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The Supreme Court (SC) has acquitted a woman of bigamy, ruling that a person accused of the crime can argue that a previous marriage was void from the…
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A woman accused of bigamy has been acquitted by the Supreme Court (SC) after it ruled that an accused may invoke the void nature of a marriage as a defense in…
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The ruling stressed that a voluntary surrender should be assessed with a ‘more considerate and broad-minded approach’ once guilt is established.
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Constructive notice is where the law presumes a person knows a certain fact because it is recorded in public records.
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The Supreme Court issued rulings on several cases involving marriage and family matters.
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‘The existence and the validity of the first marriage being an essential element of the crime of bigamy, it is but logical that a conviction for said offense…
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While gathering documents for the scholarship application of my child earlier this year, I found out that my husband married another woman on 8 August 2008,…
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The Supreme Court has clarified that the 15-year prescriptive period for filing a bigamy case starts from the actual discovery of the bigamous marriage—not…
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