Note 569 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 3)

When the marriage was solemnized in the state, it is sufficient if the plaintiff be an inhabitant thereof at the commencement of the suit. If not solemnized in the state, both parties must be inhabitants at the commencement of the suit, and the plaintiff for one year before (act of 1862). The plaintiff must be an inhabitant of the state at the commencement of the suit and for one year before; "which residence shall be sufficient to give the court jurisdiction, without regard to the place where the marriage was solemnized, or the cause of suit arose" (act of 1865): Codes and Gen. Laws (1902), I, 277. By the act of 1853, in force till 1862, the term of residence was fixed at six months: Gen. Laws. (1852-53), 49-51.