[470] Act of March 8: Laws (1882), 73-81; Rev. Stat. (1887), sec. 1571, pp. 419-24; also Van Orsdel and Chatterton, Rev. Stat. (1899), 794-800. The first six of the causes above enumerated were introduced by the act which came into force Jan. 1, 1870: Laws (1869), 274-81; but then under the third head, conviction and imprisonment for three years or more were necessary to constitute a ground; and by the sixth cause it was required that one of the parties should be "repeatedly guilty of such unhuman treatment as shall endanger the life of the other." The remaining five causes first appeared in 1882.
[471] Wright, Report, 203-6, 156.
[472] Act of Feb. 2: Laws (1878), 1, 2; also Rev. Stat. of Utah (1898), 333, 334.
[473] Laws of Utah (1903), 39, 40.
[474] Laws (1896), 111.
[475] Act of Feb. 1, 1853: Gen. Laws of Ore. (1852-53), 49-51.
[476] Act of Jan. 17, 1854: Stat. of Ore. (1853-54), 494-97. Cf. also the same, ibid. (1854-55), 536-41.
[477] Act of Oct. 11, 1862: Laws, secs. 485 ff.; and the same in Deady and Lane, Organic and Other Gen. Laws of Ore., 1843-1872 (1874), 208-12.
[478] Act of Feb. 27: Laws (1887), 52, 53; same in Codes and Stat. of Ore. (1902), I, 275. On cruelty as a cause see Morris v. Morris, 73 Am. Dec., 619-31.
[479] Stat. for the Ter. of Wash. (1854), 405-7.