Note 309 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 2)

Code of Tenn. (1884), 612; Shannon, Code (1896), 1044 n. 2. Earlier the condition was citizenship and residence for one year: Act of Oct. 26, 1799: Scott, Laws (1821), I, 647; same in 1835, except the petitioner may have been absent on business or for health: Caruthers and Nicholson, Compilation (1836), 260; also see 5 Yerg., 203. A male citizen bringing suit for divorce must give bond and security for costs: Acts (1891), chap. 221, p. 433. On divorce in a foreign state see 3 Lea, 260.