Note 1111 — Chapter XV · DIVORCE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES

For incest the guilty person "shall forfeit one-half of his estate, and both suffer imprisonment a whole year, in the house of Correction, at hard labour, and for the second offence, imprisonment in manner aforesaid during life."—Linn, op. cit., 110; abrogated and re-enacted in 1693: ibid., 194; and a similar law was passed in 1700: Bioren, Laws, I, 2, 6.