become a habitual drunkard.[201] [198] _North Carolina Acts_ (1827-28), 20. _Cf._ the preceding section of the text. [199] _Rev. Stat. of N. C._ (1837), 238-42. [200] The first three causes appear in _Public Laws_ (1871-72), 339; the fourth is added by _ibid._ (1879), chap. 132, p. 240; the fifth by _ibid._ (1887), chap. 100, p. 190; the sixth by _ibid._ (1889), chap. 442, pp. 422, 423; the seventh by _ibid._ (1903), 846, amending an act in _ibid._ (1899), 337, which made the term of desertion one year; and the eighth by _ibid._ (1899), 124, 125. The seventh cause applies only to cases occurring before Jan. 1, 1903. The offender divorced for the seventh cause may not rewed in five years; and he must have been a resident of the state for the same period. [201] The five causes of partial divorce are in _Public Laws_ (1871-72), 339, 340. _Cf._ _Code of N. C._ (1883), I, 514. With the exception of one or two peculiar provisions, the law of Tennessee, enacted in 1799, is similar to that of the parent state North Carolina, adopted fifteen years later, although confirmation by the assembly is not required. A total divorce may be granted by the superior court (1) for bodily infirmity at the time of marriage; (2) bigamy; (3) when either consort "hath been guilty of acts and deeds inconsistent with the matrimonial vow, by adultery, or wilful and malicious desertion or absence without a reasonable cause, for the space of two years." In all cases the innocent person may remarry; but when the cause is long absence, he does so at his peril. For, as in Pennsylvania, should he contract a second marriage and thereafter the missing first spouse prove to be alive, a cruel Enoch Arden clause offers to the "party remaining single" at his return the option either of having his former wife restored or his marriage with her dissolved. By the same statute a divorce from bed and board may be allowed when (1) the husband "shall maliciously abandon, or (2) turn his wife out of doors; or (3) by cruel or barbarous treatment endanger her life; or (4) offer such indignities to her person as to render her condition intolerable, and thereby force her to withdraw." In such cases the court may grant the wife alimony, not exceeding one-third either of the husband's income or of his estate, as may seem just; and such alimony shall continue until a reconciliation takes place, or until the husband by his petition shall "offer to cohabit with her again, and use her as a good husband ought to do." Then the court may suspend the decree; or, if the wife refuse, may discharge and annul it at its discretion. Should the husband after reconciliation fail to keep his engagements, the decree of separation is to be renewed and the arrears of alimony paid.[202] [202] SCOTT, _Laws of Tenn., Including those of North Carolina Now in Force_ (1821), I, 645-48 (act of Oct. 26, 1799).