[555] Ter. Laws of Mich., III, 931.
[556] Rev. Stat. (1838), 337; Acts (1844), 74.
[557] Pub. Acts (1899), 326, 327. When the order for appearance is served outside the state, the law requires that the fact of service be proved by affidavit before a justice or notary whose legal character and signature must be attested by the certificate of a court of record. See the earlier act of 1895: Pub. Acts (1895), 371; and cf. Howell, Gen. Stat., II, 1624; Miller, Comp. Laws (1899), III, 2657.
[558] Cf. the act of June 20: Laws of Pa. (1893), 471; also in Pepper and Lewis, Digest (1896), I, 1638, 1639; and the act of Sept. 19, 1785: Laws of the Com. of Pa. (1803), III, 105.
[559] Bates, Ann. Stat. of Ohio (1897), II, 2805. The law of 1827 requires two years' residence on the part of the plaintiff: Chase, Stat., III, 1581.
[560] Cf. act of June 1, 1827: Rev. Code of Ill. (1827), 182; Hurd, Rev. Stat. of Ill. (1898), 632: being the same as ibid. (1845), 196.
[561] Cf. Rev. Stat. of Minn. (1851), 274; Gen. Stat. (1894), I, 1268, 1269.
[562] The development of the Wisconsin law of residence may be traced in Stat. of the Ter. (1838-39), 140; Rev. Stat. (1849), 395; ibid. (1858), 623-28 (in which the clause referring to the wife as plaintiff first appears); Ann. Stat. (1889), I, 1368.
[563] The petition for divorce "must state that the plaintiff has been for the last year a resident of the state, specifying the township and county in which he or she has resided, and the length of such residence therein after deducting all absences from the state; that it has been in good faith and not for the purpose of obtaining a divorce only"; and "in all cases it must be alleged that the application is made in good faith and for the purpose set forth in the petition."—Ann. Code of Ia. (1897), 1137; same in Code (1873), 339. See also act of Dec. 29, 1838: Laws (1838-39), 179, 180, first fixing the period of one year's previous residence.
[564] "Provided, further, that such suit shall only be brought in the county in which such plaintiff or defendant resides, or where such defendant last resided."—Mills, Ann. Stat. of Col. (1897), III, 437, 438; being the act of 1893: Laws, 239. Cf. the original act in Laws of Col. (1861-62), 360, 361, fixing the one-year term.