Note 394 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 2)
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By the act of April 13, 1843: Laws (1843), 233; Pepper and Lewis, Digest, I, 1636, "where the wife is lunatic or non compos mentis" a petition for divorce may be "exhibited by any relative or next friend" who shall make the affidavit provided for in other cases of divorce.