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255.20 – Unlawfully procuring a marriage license, bigamy, adultery: defense

§ 255.20 Unlawfully procuring a marriage license, bigamy, adultery:
defense.

In any prosecution for unlawfully procuring a marriage license,
bigamy, or adultery, it is an affirmative defense that the defendant
acted under a reasonable belief that both he and the other person to the
marriage or prospective marriage or to the sexual intercourse, as the
case may be, were unmarried.

Criminal Laws NY

Criminal Laws NY