New York Penal Code § 255.20

Unlawfully procuring a marriage license, bigamy, adultery: defense
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§ 255.20 Unlawfully procuring a marriage license, bigamy, adultery:\n           defense.\n  In any prosecution for unlawfully procuring a marriage license,\nbigamy, or adultery, it is an affirmative defense that the defendant\nacted under a reasonable belief that both he and the other person to the\nmarriage or prospective marriage or to the sexual intercourse, as the\ncase may be, were unmarried.\n

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