[41] Pub. Acts (1843), 20; Rev. Stat. (1849), 274. For a construction of "intolerable cruelty" see Shaw v. Shaw, 17 Conn. Reports, 189.
[42] Pub. Acts (1849), 17 (June 19). Cf. Gen. Stat. (1866), 305, 306, where the nine causes already existing in 1849 are enumerated; also ibid. (1875), 188.
[43] Pub. Acts (1878), 305.
[44] The eight causes already named appear in Gen. Stat. (1887), 612; and no later action seems to have been taken. Cf. Gen. Stat. (1902), 1090, 1091.
[45] So in 1798: Pub. Laws of R. I. (1798), 481. See also Gen. Laws (1896), 760, 761, where exclusive jurisdiction in such cases is vested in the appellate division of the supreme court.
[46] Pub. Laws (1798), 479.
[47] Pub. Laws (1844), 263. But this provision may be earlier; I have not been able to verify the date.
[48] Laws of R. I. (1851), 796.
[49] Gen. Laws (1896), 634. Eight causes are here formally enumerated; but the act further declares that when it is alleged in the petition that the parties have lived apart from each other for at least ten years, the court may in its discretion grant a divorce: ibid., 634. This provision originated in 1893: Acts and Resolves (1892-93), 237.
[50] Pub. Laws (1902), 39-41.