Formalities.—Marriage licenses are required, and a ceremonial solemnization is essential.
Marriage may be solemnized “by any minister of the Gospel, or other officer or person authorized by the laws of this State to solemnize marriage.”
1. The impotence of either party at the time of the marriage.
2. Any cause which renders a marriage null ab initio.
3. Adultery.
4. Abandonment continued uninterruptedly for at least three years.
5. When the woman before marriage has been guilty of illicit carnal intercourse with another man, the same being unknown to her husband at the time of the marriage.
Limited divorces granted for cruelty of treatment.
All divorces are at first granted nisi—provisionally—to become absolute on application six months afterward.