Note 405 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 2)
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Cf. Act of March 12: Laws of Del. (1873), 633-35; or the same in Rev. Stat. (1874), 475; with Rev. Stat. (1893), 595.
The discretionary grounds are now (1) "procurement of the marriage by fraud for want of age, the husband being under the age of eighteen years or the wife being under the age of sixteen years at the time of the marriage, and such marriage not being after those ages voluntarily ratified;" (2) "wilful neglect on the part of the husband for three years to provide for his wife the necessaries of life suitable to her condition."