distrain for rent before it is due, if the tenant be seeking to remove his goods from the premises.

Missouri. The landlord of agricultural lands has a lien on the crops grown during the term, which continues for 8 months. This lien may be enforced by attachment.

Nebraska.-There is no authority for distress for rent.

New Hampshire.—Rent stands the same as any other debt. There is no authority for distress.

New Jersey.-A landlord can distrain goods of the tenant on the premises, for 1 year's rent in arrears, within 6 months after the rent is due, and may follow the goods for 30 days after their removal from the premises. The goods must be the property of the tenant at the time of the distress.

North Carolina.- The landlord has a lien on crops, paramount to all other liens except those for taxes, continuing until the rent is paid and all conditions performed.

Pennsylvania.-The landlord may seize any personal property on the premises for rent due, and follow the tenant's goods for 30 days if clandestinely removed. Generally, the property of strangers on the premises may be seized for rent. The tenant, other than a copartnership or corporation, may claim an exemption of property to the value of $300, but the exemption is usually waived by lease.

South Carolina.-Rent for the period of 1 year in arrears is a lien on the property of the tenant, and is paramount to all other claims, liens, or exemptions, including the homestead exemption. Distraint must be enforced within 10 days from the removal of the property from the premises, or the right is gone. Only property belonging to the tenant can be distrained. Goods in the hands of an assignee under a deed of assignment for the benefit of creditors can be distrained for past due rent.

Tennessee. -The landlord has a lien on crops, paramount to all other liens. This continues for 3 months after the debt becomes due, and until the determination of any suit for rent commenced within that time. An attachment, or a judgment at law and execution, levied upon the property in whosesoever hands it might be found, are alternative remedies.

Texas.-When rent shall become due, or the tenant is about to remove from the premises, or remove his property therefrom, the party to whom rent is due, his agent, attorney, or assignee, upon filing proper affidavit and bond, may sue out a distress warrant. The landlord has a lien on crops paramount to all other liens except that for taxes, continuing so long as the property subject to the lien

remains on the premises and for 1 month thereafter. The line is enforced by attachment.

Virginia.—Distress may be levied on any goods of the lessee, his assignee or under tenant, found on the premises or which may have been removed therefrom not more than 30 days.

Washington.-Every landlord has a lien upon the crops grown or growing upon the demised premises of any year for the rent for such year, and for the faithful performance of the lease of such lands.

West Virginia.-A distress warrant may be levied on any goods of a lessee, his assignee or under tenant, on the premises, or which have been removed therefrom not more than 30 days. A husband or parent is entitled to an exemption amounting to $200.

PROVINCES OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA Manitoba.-There are certain limitations on the right of distress by landlords. A landlord can only distrain for rent for 3 months' arrears, if the rent be payable quarterly or more frequently, or for 1 year's arrears where the rent is payable less frequently than quarterly. Ontario.—Goods of the tenant which are exempt from seizure under execution, and also, with some exceptions, goods on the premises not owned by the tenant, are exempt from seizure by distress for rent.

DIVORCE

Alabama.-An absolute divorce may be decreed by the chancery courts in the following cases: In favor of either party when the other was at the time of marriage physically and incurably incapacitated from entering into the marriage state; for adultery; for voluntary abandonment from bed and board for 2 years next preceding the filing of the bill; for imprisonment in the penitentiary of this or any other state for 2 years, the sentence being for 7 years or longer; for the commission of the crime against nature, whether with mankind or beast, either before or after marriage; for becoming addicted after marriage to habitual drunkenness. A divorce may also be granted to the husband when the wife is pregnant at the time of marriage, without his knowledge or agency; and to the wife in case of cruelty by the husband, when he has committed actual violence on her person, attended with danger to life or health, or when, from his conduct, there is reasonable apprehension of such violence. The applicant must be a citizen, and have resided in the state 1 year prior to the filing of the bill, except in case of abandonment, when a residence of 3 years is required. The causes for which divorce is sought need not have occurred in this state. An absolute divorce bars the wife of her dower, and of any distributive share in the personal estate of her husband, and a divorce for pregnancy of the wife bastardizes the issue. A limited divorce may be granted for any of the causes which may be assigned as grounds for an absolute divorce.

Alaska.-A marriage prohibited by law on account of consanguinity of parties, or on account of either having a former husband or wife then living, is, if solemnized within the District, absolutely void, and for any of such causes may be declared void from the beginning, at the action of either party. The dissolution of the marriage contract may be declared at the action of the injured party for either of the following causes: (1) Impotency existing at the time of the marriage and continuing to the commencement of the action. (2) Adultery. (3) Conviction of felony. (4) Wilful desertion for the period of two years. (5) Cruel and inhuman treatment calculated to impair health or endanger life. (6) Habitual gross drunkenness contracted since marriage and continuing for one year prior to the commencement of the action. Plaintiff must be an inhabitant of the District at the commencement of the action and for two years prior thereto. Neither party may marry a third person until the action is determined upon appeal or the time for taking an appeal has expired.

Arizona.-Absolute divorce may be decreed for the following causes: Adultery; physical incompetency at marriage, continuing to the institution of suit; conviction of felony and sentence thereon to imprisonment in prison, provided judgment of divorce shall not be entered until 1 year after conviction, and provided the imprisoned one has not been convicted on the testimony of the plaintiff; wilful desertion for 2 years; extreme physical cruelty; conviction of a felony before marriage, which conviction is at the time of the marriage unknown to the other party; to the wife, the husband's neglect to provide for the wife for 2 years, having the ability so to do, or because he is idle or profligate; and to the husband, when the wife is with child by another at the time of marriage, and the fact is then unknown to the husband. The plaintiff must have been a bona-fide resident of the territory for 1 year, and of the county for 6 months before beginning action. Alimony and counsel fees may be allowed pendente lite, and on decree a division of the community property may be allowed. A limited divorce may be granted for certain causes, such as desertion.

Arkansas.-An absolute divorce may be granted for the following causes: Adultery subsequent to marriage; impotency of either party at the time of contract; desertion for 12 months without cause; a former husband or wife living at the time of marriage; conviction for felony or other infamous crime; habitual drunkenness for 12 months; such cruel and barbarous treatment by one as endangers the life of the other; offering such indignities to the person of the other as shall render his or her condition intolerable. The plaintiff must prove residence here for 1 year next before suit; that the cause of divorce occurred or existed here, or, if out of the state, either that it was a legal cause for divorce where it occurred or existed, or that the plantiff then resided here, and that the cause occurred or existed within 5 years next before the suit. Attorney's fees and alimony pendente lite may be allowed the wife. Collusion or commission of like offenses by the defendant will prevent a decree of divorce; the cause of divorce must be provided before the court can grant the divorce; and no decree pro confesso will be granted. Permanent alimony and the care of children may be settled in the suit. The court may at any time, upon the application of either party, make alteration as to alimony and maintenance. Each party is restored to his or her property rights as to all property remaining undisposed of at the time of the decree which either party obtained from or through the other during marriage, and in consideration or by reason thereof. The wife, when a divorce is granted her, may, upon prayer for such relief, have the name she bore before marriage restored to her.

California.-An absolute divorce may be decreed by the superior court for adultery; extreme cruelty; wilful desertion for 1 year; habitual

intemperance; or conviction of felony. A marriage may be annuled: If the party seeking the annulment were under the age of legal consent, and the marriage were contracted without the consent of parents or guardians; if the former husband or wife of either party were living and such marriage were in force; if either party were of unsound mind; if the consent of either party were obtained by fraud; if the consent were obtained by force; if either party were physically incapable of entering the marriage state. The plaintiff must have been a resident of the state for 6 months. No decree pro confesso will be granted. The marriage of divorced parties is void unless 1 year have elapsed subsequent to the granting of the divorce.

Colorado.-An absolute divorce may be granted for any of the following causes: Adultery; impotency; where the defendant had a wife or husband living at the time of marrying; extreme cruelty; wilful desertion and absence without any reasonable cause for the space of 1 year; the husband in good bodily health failing to make reasonable provision for the support of his family for the space of 1 year; habitual drunkenness for the space of 1 year; the defendant convicted of a felony. The plaintiff must have resided in this state 1 year before filing the bill, unless the offense be adultery or extreme cruelty committed within the state. A decree of divorce requires that neither party shall be permitted to marry again within 1 year from entry of decree, but does not affect the legitimacy of children, except where the marriage is declared void by reason of a prior marriage. If no appeal or writ of error shall be taken from the decree, the court may set aside such decree and reopen the case at any time within 1 year upon the application of the defeated party showing good reason therefor. Alimony is allowed at the discretion of the court.

Connecticut.-The superior court may grant an absolute divorce for any of the following causes: Adultery; fraudulent contract; wilful desertion for 3 years with total neglect of duty; 7 years' absence, during which period the absent party has not been heard from; habitual intemperance; intolerable cruelty; sentence to imprisonment for life; any infamous crime involving a violation of conjugal duty and punishable by imprisonment in the state prison. Incapacity of either party for procreation is a ground for annulling the marriage. No complaint can be heard nor decree granted until after the expiration of 90 days from the day when the complaint is made returnable, except when the defendant shall appear in court to defend against such complaint, either in person or by counsel, in which case such complaint shall be privileged, and shall be tried as soon as may be. Three years' continuous residence in this state by the plaintiff next before the date of the complaint is required unless the cause of divorce shall have arisen subsequently to removal to this state by the plaintiff or unless the defendant shall have continuously resided within this state 3 years next