[335] Digest of Ark. (1894), 681; Ann. Stat. of Ind. Ter. (1899), 326.
[336] Rev. Civil Stat. of La. (1888), 70-72; ibid. (1870), 19-21; ibid. (1897), 306.
[337] Code of Ga. (1896), II, 236; Rev. Stat. of Fla. (1892), 505; Stat. of Okla. (1893), 877; Wilson, Stat. of Okla. (1903), II, 1123; Code of Va. (1887), 562. Cf., for Virginia, 4 H. and M., 507; 4 Rand., 662: 1 Rob., 608; 1 Minor's Inst., 282.
[338] Laws of N. C. (1814), chap. 5; Haywood, Manual (1819), 174 ff. It may be noted that the act of 1814 lays on the party "cast" in each divorce suit a tax of ten pounds payable to the state: ibid., 177.
[339] Acts (1816), chap. 33: also in Haywood, Manual, 177, 178.
[340] Acts (1828-29), 25.
[341] Code of N. C. (1883), I, 696, 700; and Laws (1893), chap. 153, pp. 114-16, amending Laws (1871-72), chap. 193, sec. 44. By the law of the District of Columbia, "in case of adultery of the wife, committed after ... divorce from bed and board, the court may, on petition of the husband ... deprive the wife of alimony from the date of her said criminal act, and rescind her right of dower, as well as dispossess her ... of the care, custody, and guardianship" of any child awarded to her by the original judgment: Comp. Stat. (1894), 277. Cf. Moore, Code, 201.
[342] Rev. Civil Stat. (1889), I, 1036. Cf. 61 Mo., 148; and 57 Mo., 200; 3 M. A., 321.
[343] Code of Tenn. (1884), 616, 617. "If the wife, at the time of a decree dissolving the marriage, be the owner of any lands, or have in her possession goods or chattels or choses in action acquired by her own industry or given to her by devise or otherwise, or which may have come to her, or to which she may be entitled by the decease of any relative intestate, she shall have entire and exclusive dominion and control thereof, and may sue for and recover the same in her own name subject, however, to the rights of creditors who became such before the decree was pronounced." When "a marriage is dissolved at the suit of the husband, and the defendant is owner, in her own right, of lands, his right to and interest therein and to the rents and profits of the same, shall not be taken away or impaired by the dissolution."—Ibid., 616, 617. Cf. Shannon, Code (1896), 1050.
[344] Code of Ga. (1896), II, 237; and 43 Ga., 295. But in case of bona-fide separation without divorce alimony may be granted: Code (1882), 401: ibid. (1896), II, 235.