Note 68 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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Except by an act of 1863, in addition to the "blanket" provision of 1847, three years' wilful desertion is specified as a cause: Laws (1863), chap. 211, sec. 2; also in Rev. Stat. (1871), 488.