In case of husband neglecting family, court may compel maintenance.

Property sequestered.

Bond for

payment of

26. In case a husband, without any justifiable cause, shall abandon his wife or separate himself from her, and refuse or neglect to maintain and provide for her, it shall be lawful for the Court of Chancery to decree and order such suitable support and maintenance, to be paid and provided by the said husband for the wife and her children, or any of them, by that marriage, or to be made out of his property, and for such time as the nature of the case and circumstances of the parties render suitable and proper in the opinion of the court, and to compel the defendant to give reasonable security for such maintenance and allowance, and from time to time to make such further orders touching the same as shall be just and equitable, and to enforce such decree and orders in the manner mentioned in the last preceding section of this act; but during the time such maintenance shall be allowed by the decree or order of the court, the husband shall not be chargeable with her debts; in cases where a husband cannot be found within this State to be served with process, his estate, property and effects within this. State, and the rents and profits thereof, may be sequestered to compel his appearance and performance of any decree or order which may be made in the suit, but the process of sequestration shall be issued only upon special order therefor, to be made upon proof of the claim alleged in the bill, and that the defendant cannot be found within the State for the service of process; upon process of sequestration, a bond as provided in cases of ne exeat may be given in discharge of the writ, and the sum in which the party shall give bond, with sufficient surety or sureties, shall be endorsed upon the writ in words at length; where the proceedings are by process of sequestration, and defendant does not appear, the decree shall be enforceable only out of and against the estate sequestered.

27. In any such suit as is mentioned in the last precosts of suit. ceding section, it shall be lawful for the Chancellor, if application therefor be made before answer filed, to order a bond to be given in the sum of one hundred dollars, by one or more sufficient sureties, with condition to pay such costs as shall or may be awarded by the court to be paid to the defendant.

VI. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

28. If it appear to the court that the adultery complained of shall have been occasioned by the collusion of the parties, and done with an intention to procure a divorce, or that the complainant was consenting thereto, or that both parties have been guilty of adultery not condoned, then no divorce shall be decreed.

29. Whenever any poor person shall have cause of suit under this act, and shall make an affidavit or affirmation that he or she is not worth one hundred dollars clear estate, the Chancellor may, at his discretion, assign to such poor person a solicitor and counsel learned in the law, to prosecute the said cause, who, together with all other officers, shall perform their respective duties therein without fee or reward.

of name.

Imprisonment

continued desertion.

30. The court, upon or after granting a divorce from Resumption the bonds of matrimony, may allow her to resume her maiden name or the name of a former deceased husband. 31. Willful and obstinate desertion shall be regarded, not to affect held and construed to be "continued" within the meaning of this act, notwithstanding that after such desertion has or shall have begun, the deserting party has or shall have been imprisoned in this or any other State or country upon conviction by due process of law for a crime, misdemeanor or offense, not political, committed in this or any other State or country, or for any other reason, shall have been under restraint, either by due process of law or his or her voluntary act.

32. The Chancellor shall from time to time make such rules and orders regulating the practice and procedure under this act as may, in his judgment, render the proceedings more efficient and simple, and prevent unnecessary cost and delay.

VII. FOREIGN DECREES.

33. Full faith and credit shall be given in all courts of this State to a decree of annulment of marriage or divorce by a court of competent jurisdiction in another

Rules and made by

regulations

Chancellor.

Decrees of given full credence.

other States

Proviso.

When act in effect.

Proviso.

State, Territory or possession of the United States when the jurisdiction of such court was obtained in the manner and in substantial conformity with the conditions prescribed in sections five, six and seven of this act. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit the power of any court to give such effect to a decree of annulment or divorce by a court of a foreign country as may be justified by the rules of international comity; provided, that if any inhabitant of this State shall go into another State, Territory or country, in order to obtain a decree of divorce for a cause which occurred while the parties resided in this State, or for a cause which is not ground for divorce under the laws of this State, a decree so obtained shall be of no force or effect in this State.

34. This act shall take effect on January first, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and the acts mentioned in the schedule hereto annexed, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed; provided, that nothing in this act contained shall affect proceedings in any suit pending at the time this act goes into effect so far as relates to the jurisdiction of the court or the causes of divorce or nullity, or the effect or validity of orders or divorces already made in such pending actions, but the further proceedings and practices in such actions shall be in accordance with this act, as nearly as may be practicable.

Acts repealed.

SCHEDULE.

(1) An act providing for divorces and for decrees of nullity of marriage and for alimony and the maintenance of children (Revision of 1902), approved April third, one thousand nine hundred and two.

(2) A supplement to said act (Revision of 1902), approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand nine hundred and three.

(3) A supplement to said act, approved April seventeenth, one thousand nine hundred and five.

Approved May 17, 1907.

CHAPTER 217.

An Act to secure the purity of foods, beverages, confectionery, condiments, drugs and medicines, and to prevent deception in the distribution and sales thereof (Revision of 1907).

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

not to be

sold.

1. No person shall distribute or sell, or manufacture Impure food for distribution or sale, or have in his posession with intent to distribute or sell, any article of food or drug which under any of the provisions of this act is or shall be deemed to be adulterated or misbranded.

2. The term "drug,” as used in this act, shall include all medicines and preparations recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary for internal or external use, and any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used internally or externally for the cure, mitigation or prevention of disease of man or animal; the term "food," as used in this act, shall include every article used for food or drink by man or animal, and every ingredient of such article, and all confectionery and condiments.

"Food" and fined.

"drug" de

3. For the purposes of this act an article shall be Impure deemed to be adulterated

In case of drugs:

First. If, when a drug is sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity as determined by the test laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary official at the time of investigation. Second. If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard or quality under which it is sold. In the case of confectionery:

drugs.

Impure confectionery.

Impure food.

Proviso.

"Misbranded" defined.

If it contain terra alba, barytes, talc, chrome yellow or other mineral substance, or poisonous color or flavor, or other ingredient deleterious or detrimental to health, or any vinous, malt or spirituous liquor or compound or narcotic drug.

In the case of food:

First. If any substance has been mixed or packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.

Second. If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article.

Third. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted.

Fourth. If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated or stained in a manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed.

Fifth. If it contain any added poisonous or other added deleterious ingredient which may render such article injurious to health; provided, that when in the preparation of food products for shipment they are preserved by any external application applied in such manner that the preservative is necessarily removed mechanically, or by maceration in water, or otherwise, and directions for the removal of said preservative shall be printed on the covering or the package, the provisions of this act shall be construed as applying only when said products are ready for consumption.

Sixth. If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed or putrid animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it is the product of a diseased animal, or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter.

4. The term "misbranded," as used herein, shall apply to all drugs, or articles of food, or articles which enter into the composition of food, the package or label of which shall bear any statement, design or device regarding such article, or the ingredients or substances contained therein, which shall be false or misleading in any particular, and to any food or drug product which is falsely branded as to the State, Territory or country in which it is manufactured or produced.