[209] Act of Feb. 22, 1850: Cobb, Digest (1851), 226; Acts (1849-50), 151, 152.
[210] Except that "fraud" is added to the fourth cause.
[211] Code of Ga. (1896), II, 224 ff. Instead of "Levitical," "prohibited" degrees is now used.
[212] Const. of 1877, Art. VI, secs. 4, 15, 16: N. Y. Convention Manual, Part II, Vol. I, 427, 431. Cf. Const. of 1865, Art. IV, sec. 2; 1868, Art. V, secs. 2, 3: Poore, Charters, I, 409, 420, 422.
In case of partial divorce one jury is sufficient: Const. of 1877, Art. VI, sec. 15; and such seems to have been the earlier practice: 16 Ga., 81; Code of Ga. (1882), 394, note. A juror may be challenged for "conscientious scruples" regarding divorce: Code (1882), 397. This last-named provision appears in the act of Dec. 22, 1840: Cobb, Digest (1851), 225, 226.
[213] Act of March 10, 1803, passed by the Mississippi territorial legislature: Digest of the Laws of Ala. (1823), 252.
[214] Act of Dec. 21, 1820: Digest (1823), 256.
[215] Act of Dec. 23, 1824: Acts (1824), 61, 62.
[216] Aikin, Digest (1833), 130-32.
[217] Clay, Digest of Laws of Alabama (1843), 172; also in Acts (1843), 27.