Note 323 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 2)
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Code of Va. (1887), 561; Code of W. Va. (1900), 662; Code of Md. (1888), 142; Ann. Code of Miss. (1892), 421; Code of Ga. (1882), 395; ibid. (1896), II, 227; Digest of Ark. (1894), 681; Ann. Stat. of Ind. Ter. (1899), 325. See Wright, Report, 85-89.
By the Alabama Act of Dec. 14, 1898, in case of a decree pro confesso taken in the chancery court, the evidence having been taken and the cause being ready for decree, and no defense being interposed, if the complainant or his solicitor shall file a written request to the register or the clerk of the court to deliver the papers in the suit to the chancellor or judge, at the same time submitting his note of testimony in the case, then the chancellor shall render a decree in term time or in vacation: Gen. Laws of Ala. (1898-99), 118.