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Previous residence where parties have resided together in State, three years; otherwise five years; guilty party cannot marry for two years. Michigan.-Imprisonment for life or three years or more; physical incapacity; desertion for two years; habitual drunkenness; where either party has obtained a divorce in another State; neglect by husband to provide. Court may order that guilty party shall not marry for a term not exceeding two years; previous residence of one year required.

Minnesota. Cruel and inhuman treatment; sentence to State prison; physical incapacity; wilful desertion three years; habitual drunkenness one year. Either party may remarry; residence required, one year. Mississippi. Sentenced to penitentiary; wilful desertion two years; habitual drunkenness; habitual cruel and inhuman treatment; physical incapacity; pregnancy of wife at time of marriage not by or with knowledge of husband; insanity or idiocy at time of marriage unknown to other. marry.

Previous residence, one year; court may decree that guilty party shall not re- Missouri. - Absent without cause for one year; conviction of felony or infamous crime; habitual drunkenness for one year; cruel or barbarous treatment as to endanger life; indignities as to render condition intolerable; husband guilty of such conduct as to constitute him a vagrant; conviction of crime or felony prior to marriage unknown to the other; incapacity; wife pregnant at time of marriage not by or with knowledge of husband.

One year's residence required. Either party may remarry.

Montana. Desertion one year; husband wilfully deserting wife and departing from State without intention of returning; habitual drunkenness for one year; extreme cruelty; incapacity; conviction of felony or infamous crime.

One year's residence required; no statutory provision as to remarriage.

Nebraska. Sentenced to imprisonment for life or for three years or more; wilful desertion for two years; habitual drunkard; extreme cruelty; utter desertion for two years; physical incapacity; neglect on part of husband to provide.

Residence required, six months; neither party can marry within time allowed for appeal, nor before final judgment, if appeal is taken.

Nevada. Wilful desertion for one year; conviction of felony or infamous crime; habitual gross drunkenness; physical incapacity at time of marriage, continued to date of petition; extreme cruelty; neglect of husband to provide for one year.

Either party may remarry; residence of six months required.

New Hampshire.-Extreme cruelty; conviction of crime and imprisonment for one year; where either has treated the other so seriously as to injure health or endanger reason; absence three years unheard of; habitual drunkenness three years; physical incapacity; where either has joined any society which professes to believe the relation of husband and wife unlawful, and refusal to cohabit with the other for six months; desertion for three years, with refusal to cohabit; desertion for three years with refusal to support; where wife has resided out of State ten years without his consent without returning to claim her marital rights; where the wife of an alien has resided in the State three years and her husband has left the United States with intention of becoming a citizen of another country, not having made any suitable provision for her support; one or the other of the parties must be a resident of the State one year, unless both parties were domiciled in State when action was commenced, or the defendant was served with process in State, the plaintiff being domiciled therein.

Either party can remarry.