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===Desertion===
This is an old statutory ground of divorce, established in the 1857 English ''Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act'', which allowed a spouse to claim a divorce after she had been abandoned for at least three years "without just <span class="noglossary">cause</span>."
This ground of divorce has long since been abolished, but a claim for divorce based on simple separation for a period of at least one year may be brought instead.