[383] Stat. of N. J. (1847), 923.
[384] Act of March 20: Acts (1857), 399. The law of 1846 is retained in Elmer, Digest (2d ed. by Nixon, Philadelphia, 1855), 205-8.
[385] Act of March 5: Pub. Laws (1890), 34; Gen. Stat. (1896), II, 1274.
[386] A marriage within the forbidden degrees is not void but voidable, and until so pronounced must be treated as valid: Boylan v. Deinzer, 18 Stewart, N. J. Equity Reports, 485.
[387] Impotence as a ground of divorce appears in Rev. Stat. (1874), 255. Cf. also Gen. Stat. (1896), II, 1267. Before this enactment a marriage could not be annulled for impotence: Anonymous, 9 C. E. Green, N. J. Equity Reports, 19.
[388] Act of Apr. 1: Pub. Laws (1887), 132; also in Gen. Stat. (1896), II, 1273. This provision thus seems to be in force; if so, since the act of 1890 already cited, the term must be two years.
[389] Act of March 4: Pub. Laws (1891), 76. In general, for the present law regulating both kinds of divorce in New Jersey, see Gen. Stat. (1896), II, 1267-75.
[390] Act of Sept. 19, 1785: Laws of the Com. of Pa. (1803), III, 102-6. Repealed March 13, 1815: Laws of Gen. Assem. (1822), VI, 286; Purdon, Digest (1818), 130.
[391] Laws of the Com., VII, 375.
[392] Act of March 13, 1815: in Laws of Com. (1822), VI, 286; and Pepper and Lewis, Digest (1896), I, 1633.