Canon 93 Wives of missing husbands who remarry

She whose husband has gone away and is missing, and who lives with another before she has been assured of his death, commits adultery. Likewise also soldiers' wives who have married while their husbands were missing are subject to the same rule; as also those who, because of their husband's absence abroad, have not waited for his return. Yet here the matter admits of some pardon, because the supposition inclines rather towards death. And she who in ignorance married the man left for a time by his wife, and then was put away because the former wife returned to him, committed fornication, but in ignorance; she will not therefore be barred from marriage; but it is better if she remains as she is. But if the soldier should at length return, whose wife, because of his long absence, was joined to another man, let him, if he so chooses, take back again his own wife, pardon being given for her ignorance to her, and to the man who took her into his house by a second marriage.