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.Code 1858, § 2460 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 26, § 9); Shan., §4213; mod. Code 1932, § 8438; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 36-811.
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