A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3

by George Elliott Howard

[150] Digest (1823), 254.

[151] Art. VI, sec. 3, Const. of 1819: Digest (1823), 255: Poore, Charters, I, 42.

[152] Act. of Dec. 21, 1820: Digest (1823), 256.

[153] For these examples see Digest (1823), 256-58 (those of 1821-22); Acts (1843), 143-47; Acts (1843-44), 210; Acts (1849-50), 517.

[154] Cf. Const. of 1865, Art. IV, sec. 30; that of 1867, Art. IV, sec. 30; and that of 1875, Art. IV, sec. 23: Poore, Charters, I, 53, 65, 81.

[155] Acts (1882-83), 587.

[156] Acts Passed at the First Session of the Leg. Council of the Ter. of Orleans (1805), 454-56. On May 1, 1805, a divorce was granted to James Elliot and Sophia his wife: ibid., 456-58.

[157] Lislet, Gen. Digest, II, Appendix, 25, 26, gives the list, with dates. These divorce acts, as usual, fill each but two or three lines in the statute-book, and usually the cause is not assigned. For examples see Acts (1822), 12; ibid. (1826), 34, 58, 60, 62, 222; and ibid. (1827), 12, 18, 24.

[158] By the act of March 19, 1827: Acts, 130-35.

[159] Const. of 1845, Art. CXVII: Poore, Charters, I, 721; also Const. of 1852, Art. CXIV: Poore, op. cit., I, 735; Civil Code (1853), 19; Const. of 1864, Art. CXVII; and Const. of 1868, Art. CXIII: Poore, op. cit., I, 750, 767.