Note 341 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 2)

Code of N. C. (1883), I, 696, 700; and Laws (1893), chap. 153, pp. 114-16, amending Laws (1871-72), chap. 193, sec. 44. By the law of the District of Columbia, "in case of adultery of the wife, committed after ... divorce from bed and board, the court may, on petition of the husband ... deprive the wife of alimony from the date of her said criminal act, and rescind her right of dower, as well as dispossess her ... of the care, custody, and guardianship" of any child awarded to her by the original judgment: Comp. Stat. (1894), 277. Cf. Moore, Code, 201.