Liberato v. Liberato

The trial Court does not have jurisdiction of the cause for divorce unless it wholly arose or accrued while the plaintiff was domiciled in this State. R. L., c. 339, s. 5. In Greenlaw v. Greenlaw, 12 N. H. 200, the Court was of the opinion that a divorce could not be decreed under a statute that was not retrospective, for conviction and imprisonment that occurred prior to the enactment of the statute although the imprisonment continued beyond such passage. “At the time of its passage the libelee could not recall the one, nor avoid the continuance of the other; and a construction of the…