Note 470 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 3)

Act of March 8: Laws (1882), 73-81; Rev. Stat. (1887), sec. 1571, pp. 419-24; also Van Orsdel and Chatterton, Rev. Stat. (1899), 794-800. The first six of the causes above enumerated were introduced by the act which came into force Jan. 1, 1870: Laws (1869), 274-81; but then under the third head, conviction and imprisonment for three years or more were necessary to constitute a ground; and by the sixth cause it was required that one of the parties should be "repeatedly guilty of such unhuman treatment as shall endanger the life of the other." The remaining five causes first appeared in 1882.