[61] Acts and Resolves (1896), 43, 44.
[62] Vermont Stat. (1894), 508, 236.
[63] Laws of the State of Maine (1821), I, 344-47; also Smith, Laws of the State of Maine (1834), I, 424 ff.
[64] Act of March 6, 1830: Pub. Acts (1830), 1227, 1228. This statute merely changes the terms of another of the preceding year: ibid. (1829), 1208, 1209.
[65] In 1835 a divorce is authorized "where the consent of one of the parties to the marriage was obtained, by gross and deliberate fraud or false pretences ... provided the parties have not cohabited, as husband and wife, after such fraud was known to the party, thus deceived."—Pub. Acts (1835), 177. Habitual drunkenness was added in 1838: Pub. Acts (1838), 499, 500; cf. Rev. Stat. (2d ed., 1847), 364.
[66] The act of July 13, 1847, gave a "majority" of the justices this power: Acts and Resolves (1847), 8; but this was amended in harmony with the text in 1849: Acts and Resolves (1849), 104.
[67] Ibid. (1850), 150, 151.
[68] 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.
[69] Acts and Resolves (1883), chap. 212, secs. 1, 2, p. 175 (March 13); Rev. Stat. (1884), 520-23.
[70] Acts and Resolves (1883), chap. 212, sec. 4, pp. 175, 176; Rev. Stat. (1884), 522.