Note 238 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 2)
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Act of March 12: Laws (1849), 49, 50; Rev. Stat. (1889), I, 1029-32; ibid. (1899), I, 741. The circuit courts have jurisdiction; and process is as in civil suits, except that the answer of the defendant need not be under oath.