[228] Act of Dec. 1, 1863: Laws (1862-63), 125, 126.
[229] Act of Feb. 21, 1867: Laws (1866-67), 387.
[230] Rev. Code (1858), 334.
[231] By the Rev. Code (1871): see Wright, Report, 154; and Willcox, The Divorce Problem, 52.
[232] For interpretation of "cruel treatment" see Johns v. Johns, 57 Miss., 530.
[233] Ann. Code of Miss. (1892), 419, 420.
[234] Act of May 13, 1807: Laws of a Pub. and Gen. Nature (1842), 1, 90-92.
[235] Ibid., II, 360.
[236] Rev. Stat. (1835), 225 (Jan. 24). The "indignities" need not be offered to the person: 5 Missouri, 278; 19 Missouri, 352; 16 M. A., 422; 17 M. A., 390; but one or two such acts are insufficient: 34 Missouri, 211.
[237] According to the code, a "vagrant" is "every person who may be found loitering around houses of ill-fame, gambling houses, or places where liquors are sold or drunk, without any visible means of support, or shall attend or operate any gambling device or apparatus;" and "every able-bodied married man who shall neglect or refuse to provide for the support of his family, and every person found tramping or wandering around from place to place without any visible means of support." Besides being liable to suit for divorce, such a husband may be sentenced to not less than twenty days in the county jail, or to pay a fine of 20 dollars, or both: Rev. Stat. (1889), I, 917; ibid. (1899), I, 621. On vagrancy as a cause see 26 M. A., 647.