[238] Act of March 12: Laws (1849), 49, 50; Rev. Stat. (1889), I, 1029-32; ibid. (1899), I, 741. The circuit courts have jurisdiction; and process is as in civil suits, except that the answer of the defendant need not be under oath.
[239] Acts of Oct. 31, 1828, and Feb. 4, 1835, in Rev. Stat. of Fla. (1892), 504; or Thompson, Manual or Digest (1847), 47, 222-24. Incurable insanity is made a legal ground of divorce by Acts (1901), 118-21.
[240] On the allegations necessary see Johnson v. Johnson, 23 Florida, 413; Burns v. Burns, 13 Florida, 369; and on what does not constitute a cause, Crawford v. Crawford, 17 Florida, 180.
[241] Digest of Civil Laws Now in Force (1808), 26, 28, 30; also Code Civil (1825), 80, 87-91; Lislet, Gen. Digest, II, 3 ff.; Civil Code of La. (1853), 19.
[242] Act of March 19: Acts (1827), 130-35; also in Civil Code (1853), 19, 20. Such is still the law, except as to the term between the decrees.
[243] Act of April 2: Acts (1832), 152; also in Civil Code (1853), 20, 21.
[244] Acts (1855, March 14), 376.
[245] Act of March 16: Acts (1857), 137; Voorhies, Rev. Stat. Laws (1876), 313.
[246] Compare the act of March 9: Acts (1870), 108; with Acts (1877), 192. Voorhies, op. cit. (1884), 204-6, gives the law regarding the causes of divorce just as ibid. (1876), 312-14; and ibid. (1870), 18 ff.
[247] As in 1827, in these cases, a divorce may be "granted in the same decree which pronounces the separation from bed and board."