3. Extreme cruelty.
4. Three years’ utter desertion.
5. Gross and confirmed habits of intoxication.
6. Cruel and abusive treatment.
7. When the husband being of sufficient ability, grossly, or wantonly and cruelly, refuses to provide suitable maintenance for his wife.
The procedure and effects of divorce are almost identical with those of Massachusetts.
Maryland.
Marriage.—The minimum age for marriage is not fixed by statute, but parental consent is required for males under 21 years and females under 16 years.
Impediments.—Marriage is prohibited between ascendants and descendants, and collaterally between all persons related by consanguinity and affinity as set forth in the list of impediments in the statement of the law of Massachusetts.
Marriage is also forbidden between whites and negroes, or persons of negro descent.