[189] Littell, Statute Law of Kentucky (1814), IV, 19, 20.

[190] Act of Feb. 8, 1812: Littell, loc. cit., 407 ff. In case of divorce, the wife may not marry again within one year (409).

[191] Humphrey, Compendium of the Common Law, in Force in Ky., 135, above cited.

[192] For the present law of divorce see Ky. Stat. (1903), 846-51; and compare the act of March 2, 1843: Acts (1842-43), 29, 30.

[193] Code of Md. (1888), I, 143.

[194] Act of March 1, 1842: Laws (1841-42), chap. 262.

[195] Laws (1844), chap. 306.

[196] Laws (1846-47), chap. 340 (act of March 10, 1847); Mackall, Maryland Code (1861), I, 74, 75. The causes of limited divorce and the other provisions of the act are the same as in that of 1842.

[197] Laws (1888), chap. 486, modifying an act of 1872, chap. 272, which is the basis of the present law in Code of Md. (1888), I, 142, 143.

[198] North Carolina Acts (1827-28), 20. Cf. the preceding section of the text.