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The Maryland Code Public General Laws, 1904
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ART. 27.] BAWDY HOUSES—BIGAMY. 781

sum not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisoned in jail
or the house of correction for a period not exceeding one year,
or both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court;
and upon the trial of any person charged with keeping a
bawdy house or house of ill-fame, it shall be competent for the
prosecution to offer in evidence the general reputation of the
house kept by the person on trial in support of the charge.

Bigamy.

1888, art. 27, sec. 17. 1860, art. 30, sec. 12. 1706, ch. 8.
1809, ch. 138, sec. 7.

19. Whosoever being married shall, the first husband or wife
(as the case may be) being alive, marry any person, shall
undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for a period not less
than eighteen months nor more than nine years; provided, that
nothing herein contained shall extend to any person whose
husband or wife shall be continuously remaining beyond the
seas seven years together, or shall be absent himself or herself
seven years together, in any part within the United States or
elsewhere, the one of them not knowing the other to be living
at that time; and if such offender be a man, ids first wife
shall, on his conviction, be forthwith endowed, of one-third
part of his real estate, which she shall hold as tenant in dower,
the assignment of which shall be made as prescribed by law in
other cases of dower, and she shall have the like remedy for
the recovery thereof; and she shall also, on his conviction, be
forthwith entitled to one-third port of his personal estate, in
the same manner as if such husband had died intestate, and
she had survived him, which third part shall be divided and
allotted to her in the same manner as distribution is made of
the personal estate of intestates; and if the said offender be a
man, he shall, on conviction, forfeit his claim or title as tenant
by the courtesy, and also all his claim or title to any estate, real,
personal or mixed, which he may have in right of his first
wife; and if the said offender be a woman, she shall, on con-
viction, forfeit her claim to dower of the estate of her first hus-
band, and also her distributive share of his personal estate,
which she would be entitled to if he had died intestate, and
she had survived him.

Sellman v. Bowen, 8 G. & J. 50. Denlson v. Denlson, 35 Md. 361.
Jones v Jones, 48 Md. 399. Barber v. State, 50 Md. 161. Johns v. State,
55 Md. 362. Lebrun v. Lebrun, 55 Md. 506.


 

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