[199] Rev. Stat. of N. C. (1837), 238-42.
[200] The first three causes appear in Public Laws (1871-72), 339; the fourth is added by ibid. (1879), chap. 132, p. 240; the fifth by ibid. (1887), chap. 100, p. 190; the sixth by ibid. (1889), chap. 442, pp. 422, 423; the seventh by ibid. (1903), 846, amending an act in ibid. (1899), 337, which made the term of desertion one year; and the eighth by ibid. (1899), 124, 125. The seventh cause applies only to cases occurring before Jan. 1, 1903. The offender divorced for the seventh cause may not rewed in five years; and he must have been a resident of the state for the same period.
[201] The five causes of partial divorce are in Public Laws (1871-72), 339, 340. Cf. Code of N. C. (1883), I, 514.
[202] Scott, Laws of Tenn., Including those of North Carolina Now in Force (1821), I, 645-48 (act of Oct. 26, 1799).
[203] Laws (1819), chap. 20; Stat. Laws (1831), I, 76.
[204] Laws (1835), cited in Caruthers and Nicholson, Compilation of the Stat. of Tenn. (1836), 257-62.
[205] Act of Jan. 7, 1840: Acts (1839-40), chap. 54, p. 90.
[206] Act of Jan. 27, 1844: Acts (1843-44), chap. 176, pp. 200, 201.
[207] Code of Tenn. (1884), 611; Shannon, Code (1896), 1042. The fifth and sixth causes appear in ibid. (1858), 483; the tenth, in Acts (1867-68), chap. 68.
[208] Code of Tenn. (1884), 611, 612. In Shannon, Code (1896), 1043, these are combined under three heads.