Note 1469 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 2)
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See Amendments to the Civil Code of Cal. (1897), sec. 61. Cf. secs. 82-84 of Deering, Codes and Stat. (1886), II, 22, 28, 30. In New York the same exception is made when either spouse has been "finally sentenced to imprisonment for life": Rev. Stat. (1827-28), 139; ibid. (1889), IV, 2596.