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CAUSES FOR ABSOLUTE DIVORCE IN THE UNITED STATES.

The violation of the marriage vow is cause for divorce in all the States and Territories having divorce laws.

Alabama. Voluntary abandonment for two years; imprisonment in penitentiary for two years on a sentence for seven years or more; crime against nature; habitual drunkenness after marriage and physical incapacity. To the husband, when wife was with child at time of marriage without knowledge of or by husband; to wife, where husband has committed actual violence on her person, attended with danger to life or health.