[242] Act of March 19: _Acts_ (1827), 130-35; also in _Civil Code_ (1853), 19, 20. Such is still the law, except as to the term between the decrees. [243] Act of April 2: _Acts_ (1832), 152; also in _Civil Code_ (1853), 20, 21. [244] _Acts_ (1855, March 14), 376. [245] Act of March 16: _Acts_ (1857), 137; VOORHIES, _Rev. Stat. Laws_ (1876), 313. [246] Compare the act of March 9: _Acts_ (1870), 108; with _Acts_ (1877), 192. VOORHIES, _op. cit._ (1884), 204-6, gives the law regarding the causes of divorce just as _ibid._ (1876), 312-14; and _ibid._ (1870), 18 ff. For the sake of convenience, the present law of Louisiana covering the grounds of divorce--whose evolution was thus completed in 1870--may now be summarized. Absolute divorce, without need of a previous decree of separation, is permitted where the husband or wife may have (1) been sentenced to an infamous punishment; or (2) been guilty of adultery.[247] A limited divorce, which may be followed in each case by a total divorce after one year, is authorized (1) for adultery on the part of either spouse; (2) when the other party has been condemned to an infamous punishment; (3) on account of the habitual intemperance of one of the married persons; (4) excesses, cruel treatment, or outrages of one of them toward the other; (5) for public defamation; (6) for abandonment on the part of one of the married persons; (7) for an attempt of one of them against the life of the other; (8) when the husband or wife has been charged with an infamous offense and shall have fled from justice, on producing proof of the actual guilt or flight.[248] An important modification was made in 1898. The person in whose favor a limited divorce has been rendered may apply and get a full divorce in one year, while the adverse party must wait two years before fore he can secure a similar decree, in the meantime the wife's right to alimony remaining unimpaired.[249] [247] As in 1827, in these cases, a divorce may be "granted in the same decree which pronounces the separation from bed and board." [248] _Rev. Civil Code_ (1888), 68 ff.; _ibid._ (1897), 305, 306; _ibid._ (1870), 18 ff. _Cf._ WRIGHT, _Report_, 97, 98. The habitual intemperance (Cause 3) and cruel treatment (Cause 4) must still be of "such a nature as to render their living together insupportable." "The abandonment (Cause 6) with which the husband or wife is charged must be made to appear by the three reiterated summonses made to him or her from month to month, directing him or her to return to the place of the matrimonial domicile and followed by a judgment which has sentenced him or her to comply with such request, together with a notification of the said judgment, given to him or her from month to month for three times successively."--_Rev. Civil Code_ (1888), 70. [249] Act of July 4, 1898: _Acts of the Assembly_, 34.