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Concubines’ legal reprieve

Q: How does the law reconcile the position of one-man-one-wife as per the Marriage Laws with that of the Law of Succession, which recognises many wives?

A: The question of whether a man had another wife, or whether another woman was indeed a wife only becomes an issue after the death of the man, who was the provider for all his women.

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