Note 89 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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Pub. Stat. of the Com. of Mass. (1882), 813, 817; Rev. Laws (1902), II, 1353, 1357. The main features of the present law originated as early as 1835; Rev. Stat. (1836), 480, 484. By the act of May 2, 1877, the prior time of residence had been fixed at three years in all cases where the parties were inhabitants of the state at the time of the marriage: Supp. to Gen. Stat., 1873-77, II, 516.