[91] Pub. Stat. of the State of N. H. (1891), 495; ibid. (1900), 590, 591.
[92] Raised from one year to two by Pub. Laws (1902), 40; but it is provided that if the defendant has for that time been a resident and domiciled inhabitant of the state, and has been actually served with process, the requirement of the act as to term of the petitioner's residence shall be satisfied.
[93] Act of Nov. 7, 1805: Laws of State of Vt. (1808), I, 270.
[94] Laws of State of Vt., I, 272, 273, 274.
[95] Gen. Stat. (1863), chap. 70.
[96] Act of Nov. 27, 1878: Vermont Acts and Resolves (1878), 32, 33.
[97] Vermont Stat. (1894), 507.
[98] Act of March 15, 1899: Acts and Resolves, 89. Cf. the act of 1897: Acts and Resolves, 232, 233, which in the residence clause contained the additional words "or if the libellee is a resident of the state" at the time. This clause was restored by Acts and Resolves (1903), 31.
[99] Rev. Stat. (1884), 522.
[100] See Acts and Laws (1797), 457; also Stat. of the State of Conn. (1854), 380, where the term may be less for the plaintiff when the defendant has been three years in the state.