is identical with that of Massachusetts.[99] Throughout the century Connecticut has maintained a high standard in this regard. With some qualifications, three years' prior residence has always been required of a petitioner coming into the state from abroad.[100] As the law now stands, a complaint will be dismissed unless the complainant has continuously resided in the state for the preceding three years, except when the cause of divorce arose subsequently to his removal into the same; or unless the defendant had in like manner there resided for three years, and actual service was made upon him; or "unless the alleged cause is habitual intemperance, or intolerable cruelty and the plaintiff was domiciled in the state at the time of the marriage," and before bringing the complaint has returned with the intention of there remaining.[101] [91] _Pub. Stat. of the State of N. H._ (1891), 495; _ibid._ (1900), 590, 591. [92] Raised from one year to two by _Pub. Laws_ (1902), 40; but it is provided that if the defendant has for that time been a resident and domiciled inhabitant of the state, and has been actually served with process, the requirement of the act as to term of the petitioner's residence shall be satisfied. [93] Act of Nov. 7, 1805: _Laws of State of Vt._ (1808), I, 270. [94] _Laws of State of Vt._, I, 272, 273, 274. [95] _Gen. Stat._ (1863), chap. 70. [96] Act of Nov. 27, 1878: _Vermont Acts and Resolves_ (1878), 32, 33. [97] _Vermont Stat._ (1894), 507. [98] Act of March 15, 1899: _Acts and Resolves_, 89. _Cf._ the act of 1897: _Acts and Resolves_, 232, 233, which in the residence clause contained the additional words "or if the libellee is a resident of the state" at the time. This clause was restored by _Acts and Resolves_ (1903), 31. [99] _Rev. Stat._ (1884), 522. [100] See _Acts and Laws_ (1797), 457; also _Stat. of the State of Conn._ (1854), 380, where the term may be less for the plaintiff when the defendant has been three years in the state. [101] _Gen. Stat. of Conn._ (1887), 613; _Gen. Stat._ (1902), 1091.