[BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE XVII.--The session laws and compilations used in the preparation of this chapter are the same as those mentioned in Bibliographical Note XVI; and they are listed in the Bibliographical Index, V. The entire body of divorce laws enacted in each of the states and territories since 1775 has been examined. Among the decisions cited the most important are West Cambridge _v._ Lexington (October, 1823), 1 Pickering, _Mass. Reports_, 507-12; Putnam _v._ Putnam (September, 1829), 8 Pickering, _Mass. Reports_, 433-35; Desaussure's comments on the case of Vaigneur _v._ Kirk (1808), 2 _South Carolina Equity Reports_, 644-46; Justice Pope's opinion in McCrery _v._ Davis (1894), 44 _South Carolina Reports_, 195-227; Justice Nisbet's opinion in Head _v._ Head, 2 _Georgia Reports_ (1847), 191-211; Van Voorhis _v._ Brintnall, 86 _New York Reports_ (1881), 18; Willey _v._ Willey, 22 _Washington Reports_ (1900), 115-21; and Estate of Wood, 137 _California Reports_ (1902), 129 ff. For summaries of the divorce laws of the states at different periods see Lloyd, _Treatise on the Law of Divorce_ (Boston and New York, 1887); Hirsh, _Tabulated Digest of the Divorce Laws of the U. S._ (New York, 1888; new ed., 1901); Stimson, _American Statute Law_ (Boston, 1886), I, 682-715; Fairbanks, _The Divorce Laws of Mass._ (Boston, 1887); Neubauer, "Ehescheidung im Auslande," in _ZVR._, VIII, 278-316; IX, 160-74 (Stuttgart, 1889-91); Woolsey, _Divorce and Divorce Legislation_ (2d ed., New York, 1882); and compare the works of Vanness, Noble, Convers, Snyder, Ernst, and Whitney mentioned in Bibliographical Note XVI. Whitmore has a helpful article on "Statutory Restraints on the Marriage of Divorced Persons," in _Central Law Journal_, LVII, 444-49 (St. Louis, 1903). Consult the literature described in Bibliographical Note XVIII.] I. THE NEW ENGLAND STATES