[460] Act of Feb. 27: Gen. Laws of Kan. (1860), 105-10. An Act of June 4, 1861, provides that a person presenting a copy of an act of the Territory of Kansas by which he has been divorced "shall be entitled to a decree of divorce without issuing summons thereon."—Gen. Laws (1861), 146.
[461] "Code of Civil Procedure," approved Feb. 25, 1868, Art. XXVIII: in Price, Riggs, and McCahon, Gen. Stat. of Kan., 757-59. The law of 1868 reappears in Dassler, Laws of Kan. (1876), II, 761-63; ibid. (1879), 690-92.
[462] Laws of Kan. (1897), II, 273-77; Dassler, Gen. Stat. (1901), 1055.
[463] Art. II, sec. 18, Const. of 1859.
[464] See Ulrich v. Ulrich, 8 Kan., 402. Cf. Wesner v. O'Brien, 1 Ct. App., 416; and McPherson v. the State, 56 Kan., 140 ff.
[465] Act of Jan. 26: Laws (1856), 154-59.
[466] Act of Feb. 19: Laws (1875), 80. Cf. Gen. Stat. of Neb. (1873), 344-51; and Stat. of Neb., in force Aug. 1, 1867, 128-35, where the causes approved in 1856 appear without essential change.
[467] Compiled Stat. (1901), 577. The law regarding jurisdiction is the same as in 1856.
[468] Act of April 3, 1893: Laws of Col., 236, 237; also in Mills, Ann. Stat. (1897), III, 434. The sixth cause was added in 1881. At the same time the term of habitual drunkenness was reduced to one year, instead of two years, as by the law of 1861; while desertion and departure from the territory "without intention of returning," until then a ground for divorce when committed by the husband, was made a ground when committed by either party: Laws of Col. (1881), 112; also in Gen. Stat. (1883), 397 ff. The first cause, in its present form, arose in Laws of Col. (1885), 189, and it differs somewhat from the original provision in ibid. (1861-62), 360.
[469] Act in force Jan. 1, 1870: Laws (1869), 274; Van Orsdel and Chatterton, Rev. Stat. (1899), 794.