Note 534 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 3)
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Stat. of S. D. (1899), II, 1025, 1028; Rev. Codes (1903), 602. This principle was adopted by the territorial assembly: Levissee, Ann. Codes (1884), II, 750. Except for a brief term in 1866, the earlier territorial laws allow entire freedom of remarriage: see act of Jan. 12, 1866: Laws, Memorials, and Resolutions (1865-66), 14, forbidding the guilty adulterer to remarry during the lifetime of the innocent spouse; but in the next year this was replaced by a new law allowing full liberty: Act of Jan. 10, 1867: Gen. Laws, Memorials, and Resolutions (1866-67), 45-52.