[248] Rev. Civil Code (1888), 68 ff.; ibid. (1897), 305, 306; ibid. (1870), 18 ff. Cf. Wright, Report, 97, 98. The habitual intemperance (Cause 3) and cruel treatment (Cause 4) must still be of "such a nature as to render their living together insupportable."
"The abandonment (Cause 6) with which the husband or wife is charged must be made to appear by the three reiterated summonses made to him or her from month to month, directing him or her to return to the place of the matrimonial domicile and followed by a judgment which has sentenced him or her to comply with such request, together with a notification of the said judgment, given to him or her from month to month for three times successively."—Rev. Civil Code (1888), 70.
[249] Act of July 4, 1898: Acts of the Assembly, 34.
[250] Laws of the Rep. of Texas, V, 19-22; also in Dallam, Digest (1845), 80, 81. Cf. the earlier act of 1837, in Dallam, op. cit., 79.
[251] Rev. Civil Stat. (1888), I, 885-88; Ann. Civil Stat. (1897), I, 1095, 1096. No. IV was added by act of May 27, 1876: Laws, 16.
[252] Digest of Ark. (1894), 680-83; Rev. Stat. (1838), 333. Incurable insanity appears as a ground in Civil Code, sec. 464, as amended in 1873; but it was dropped by Acts (1895), 76.
[253] Act of May 2, 1890: U. S. Stat. at Large, XXVI, chap. 182, p. 81.
[254] Ann. Stat. of Ind. Ter. (1899), 324.
[255] Wilson, Stat. of Okla. (1903), II, 1119.
[256] Richberg, "Incongruity of the Divorce Laws in the United States," Publications of Mich. Pol. Sc. Association, No. 4, p. 58.