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 160 DIVORCE behavior of the husband continued in a cruel and inhuman manner not less than six months, cruel beating or injury of the wife or at- tempts at the same, pregnancy at the time of marriage without the husband's knowledge, adultery of the wife or such lewd and las- civious behavior on her part as proves her to be unchaste, confirmed mental unsoundness of not less than three years' continuance re- sulting from intemperance or hereditary taint and concealed at the time of marriage. Louis- iana : adultery, habitual intemperance, cruelty, sentence to an ignominious punishment, deser- tion for five years, fleeing from justice when charged with an infamous offence. Maine : insanity or idiocy, sentence to imprisonment for life ; and a divorce may be decreed when the judge deems it reasonable and proper, con- ducive to domestic harmony, and consistent with the peace and morality of society. Mary- land : impotence, adultery, three years' deser- tion, unchastity of the woman before mar- riage unknown to the husband. Massachu- setts: adultery, impotence, insanity or idiocy at marriage, uniting with a religious sect that professes to believe the relation of husband and wife void or unlawful and refusing cohabi- tation for three years, sentence to confinement for five years or more, desertion for five con- secutive years. Michigan: adultery, impo- tence, sentence to imprisonment for three years or more, desertion for two years, habit- ual drunkenness, extreme cruelty, gross, wan- ton, and cruel neglect or refusal by the hus- band to provide for the wife. Minnesota: adultery, impotence, cruel and inhuman treat- ment, sentence to imprisonment in the state prison, wilful desertion for three years, habit- ual drunkenness for a year, cruelty. Mis- sissippi: impotence, adultery, sentence to the penitentiary, desertion for two years, habitual drunkenness, habitual cruel and inhuman treat- ment, pregnancy unknown to the husband at the time of marriage, insanity or idiocy of one party at the time of marriage unknown to the other. Missouri : impotence, desertion for a year, adultery, conviction of felony or infa- mous crime, habitual drunkenness for a year, cruelty or indignities that render life intoler- able, the husband becoming a vagrant, preg- nancy by another than the husband without his knowledge at the time of the marriage. Nebraska: adultery, impotence, sentence to imprisonment for three years or more, deser- tion for two years, habitual drunkenness, ex- treme cruelty, consent obtained by force or fraud. Nevada: impotence, adultery, deser- tion for two years, conviction of felony or in- famous crime, habitual gross drunkenness in- capacitating the party from contributing to support of family, extreme cruelty, neglect of husband for two years to provide necessaries. New Hampshire: impotence, adultery, ex- treme cruelty, actual imprisonment on con- viction of crime for more than a year, treat- ment that seriously injures health or endan- gers reason, three years' absence not heard from, habitual drunkenness for three years, joining a religious society which professes to believe the relation of marriage unlawful and refusing cohabitation for six months, abandon- ment for three years with refusal of cohabita- tion, refusal of the husband to provide for the wife for three years. New Jersey : adultery, desertion for three years. New York : adul- tery of either party (the sole cause occurring after marriage), impotence, idiocy, or lunacy at the time of marriage, consent obtained by force or fraud. North Carolina : impotence, aban- donment, and living in adultery, "or any other just cause for a divorce." Ohio : three years' desertion, adultery, impotence, extreme cruel- ty, fraudulent contract, gross neglect of duty, habitual drunkenness for three years, imprison- ment under criminal sentence. Oregon : im- potence, adultery, fraudulent contract, sen- tence for felony, habitual drunkenness for two years, desertion for three years, cruel and in- human treatment or indignities rendering life burdensome. Pennsylvania: impotence, adul- tery, desertion for two years, cruel treatment or indignities that render the condition intol- erable and life burdensome, fraud, force, or coercion in procuring the marriage, sentence to two years' imprisonment for felony, becom- ing a lunatic or non compos mentis. Ehode Island : impotence, adultery, extreme cruelty, desertion for five years, or less in the disci tion of the court, continued drunkenness, ne lect or refusal of the husband to provide cessaries, gross misbehavior and wickedness either party repugnant to or in violation of the marriage contract. South Carolina : adultery, desertion for two years ; and the deserting party may have divorce if the desertion is jus- tified by cruel treatment, or by neglect of the husband to provide maintenance. Tennessee : impotence, adultery, desertion for two years, conviction of an infamous crime or of felony, malicious attempt upon the life of the spouse, pregnancy by another person at the time of the marriage without the husband's knowl- edge, cruelty, indignities by the husband to the wife forcing her to withdraw from him, aban- donment of the wife or turning her out of doors and refusal to provide for her. Texas : impo- tence, adultery of the wife, desertion, adultery of the husband and abandonment of the wife for three years, cruelty. Vermont: idiocy or lunacy at marriage, adultery, sentence ^to imprisonment for three years or more with actual confinement, intolerable severity, de- sertion for three years, absence for seven years without being heard from, neglect of the hus- band to provide maintenance. Virginia : adul- tery, impotence, sentence to the penitentiary, fleeing from justice for a felony and remaining absent for two years, desertion for five years, pregnancy at the time of the marriage by some person other than the husband without his knowledge, prostitution by the wife before mar- riage without the husband's knowledge, convic-