[138]. Acts of Ark., 1866–67, p. 52.

[139]. Laws of Tenn., 1865–66, pp. 65 and 81; Laws, 1869–70, p. 92.

[140]. Art. XII, sec. 27.

[141]. Cumby v. Garland, 1894, 25 S. W. 673; Coleman v. Vollmer, 1895, 31 S. W. 413.

[142]. Laws of Va., 1865–66, pp. 85–86.

[143]. Laws of W. Va., 1866, p. 102; Laws, 1872–73, p. 502.

[144]. Laws of Ill., 1891, pp. 163–64.

[145]. Butler v. Butler, 1896, 44 N. E. 203.

[146]. McDowell v. Sapp, 1883, 39 O. S. 558.

[147]. Minor v. Jones, 1876, 2 Redf. Sur. (N. Y.) 289.