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Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-112

Defense when ground is adultery

Code 1858, § 2460 (deriv

If the cause assigned for the divorce is adultery, it is a good defense and perpetual bar to the same if the defendant alleges and proves that:

(1) The complainant has been guilty of like act or crime;

(2) The complainant has admitted the defendant into conjugal society and embraces after knowledge of the criminal act;

(3) The complainant, if the husband, allowed the wife's prostitutions and received hire for them; or

(4) The husband exposed the wife to lewd company, whereby the wife became ensnared to the act or crime of adultery.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.