Note 492 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903 (continued 3)

But a divorce is not allowed, under this provision, unless the insane person shall have been regularly and duly confined in an insane asylum of the state for at least six years immediately before the action: act of Feb. 4: Gen. Laws (1895), 11, 12. By an act of Feb. 14: Gen. Laws (1899), 232, 233, were added the words, "nor unless it shall appear to the court that such insanity is permanent and incurable;" and now it is sufficient if the previous confinement has been in an asylum "of a sister state," provided the plaintiff has been an actual resident for one year: ibid., (1903), 332, 333.