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It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1975, chapters 14 and 15; in 2020, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0900\">900<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":86356,"section_number":"18.2-362","catch_line":"Person marrying when spouse is living; penalty; venue","order_by":null,"url":"\/18.2-362\/"},{"id":85324,"section_number":"18.2-363","catch_line":"Leaving Commonwealth to evade law against bigamy","order_by":null,"url":"\/18.2-363\/"}],"permalink":{"id":167763,"object_type":"law","relational_id":66589,"identifier":"18.2-364","token":"18.2\/8\/4\/18.2-364","url":"\/18.2-364\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/18.2-364\/","token":"18.2\/8\/4\/18.2-364","dublin_core":{"Title":"Exceptions to \u00a7\u00a7 18.2-362 and 18.2-363","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 18.2-364","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Sections <a class=\"law\" title=\"Person marrying when spouse is living; penalty; venue\" href=\"\/18.2-362\/\">18.2-362<\/a> and <a class=\"law\" title=\"Leaving Commonwealth to evade law against bigamy\" href=\"\/18.2-363\/\">18.2-363<\/a> shall not extend to a person whose spouse shall have been continuously absent from such person for seven years next before marriage of such person to another, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that time; nor to a person who can show that the second marriage was contracted in good faith under a reasonable belief that the former consort was dead; nor to a person who shall, at the time of the subsequent marriage, have been divorced from the <span class=\"dictionary\">bond<\/span> of the former marriage; nor to a person whose former marriage was void.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nEXCEPTIONS TO \u00a7\u00a7 18.2-362 AND 18.2-363 (\u00a7 18.2-364)\n\nSections 18.2-362 and 18.2-363 shall not extend to a person whose spouse shall\nhave been continuously absent from such person for seven years next before\nmarriage of such person to another, and shall not have been known by such person\nto be living within that time; nor to a person who can show that the second\nmarriage was contracted in good faith under a reasonable belief that the former\nconsort was dead; nor to a person who shall, at the time of the subsequent\nmarriage, have been divorced from the bond of the former marriage; nor to a\nperson whose former marriage was void.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 20-42; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2020, c. 900.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}