[519] Rev. Laws of Ind. (1824), 157.
[520] Act of Jan. 17: Laws of Ill. (1825), 169.
[521] The act of June 1, 1827: Rev. Code (1827), 181, allows the injured person to obtain a dissolution of the marriage contract; but neither this nor any subsequent statute seems expressly to forbid the defendant to remarry.
[522] Hurd, Rev. Stat. (1899), 565.
[523] Ter. Laws of Mich., I, 496; see also act of April 12, 1827: ibid., II, 363-66. An act of this last date (ibid., II, 543), for the punishment of crime, exempts persons marrying again after divorce from the pains of bigamy, provided they may do so by the terms of the decree or by those of the law where the divorce was granted. The act of June 28, 1832 (ibid., III, 931, 932), is silent as to remarriage.
[524] Howell, Gen. Stat. (1890), III, 3605; Miller, Comp. Laws (1899), III, 2666.
[525] By the act of Jan. 24, 1855, the guilty party is prohibited from remarrying: Laws of Ia. (1854-55), 112. The restriction was dropped in 1858: Laws (1858), 97, 98, 236: Ann. Code (1897), 1135-47.
[526] Stat. of Kan. (1855), 312.
[527] Gen. Laws of Kan. (1859), 385. This and the later acts to 1881 are silent as to remarriage.
[528] Laws of Kan. (1889), 145; same in Comp. Laws of Kan. (1897), II, 276: "Every decree of divorce shall recite the day and date when judgment was rendered in the cause, and that the decree does not become absolute and take effect until the expiration of six months from said time." Cf. the act of March 5: Laws of Kan. (1881), 229-31, where the six-months' prohibition first appears.