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2006 New York Code - Unlawfully Procuring A Marriage License, Bigamy, Adultery



 
  §  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.

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