Note 256 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 2)

Richberg, "Incongruity of the Divorce Laws in the United States," Publications of Mich. Pol. Sc. Association, No. 4, p. 58.

For this act of Feb. 16, 1871, see Comp. Laws of the Ter. of Ariz., 1864-71 (1871), 303, 304. The other six causes referred to in the text are (1) impotency; (2) marriage of a female under fourteen without parental consent and not ratified by her after reaching that age; (3) adultery in either without collusion or subsequent voluntary cohabiting; (4) extreme cruelty, or habitual intemperance, wilful desertion for one year, or neglect to provide for the wife; (5) force or fraud; (6) conviction of either of felony after marriage. For the earlier law see the Howell Code, 232 ff.; and the amendments of 1865, in Comp. Laws (1871), 297-303.