The opinion
Gray, C. J.
The Gen. Sts. c. 107, § 44, authorized the court to grant a share of the wife’s estate in the nature of alimony to the husband, only upon a decree of divorce from the bond of matrimony, absolutely and finally severing the marriage tie. A divorce nisi under the St. of 1870, c. 404, was not such a divorce, but was in the nature of a divorce from bed and board, not absolutely dissolving the bond of matrimony between the parties. Graves v. Graves, 108 Mass. 314 . Edgerly v. Edgerly, 112 Mass. 53 . It was therefore rightly ruled that the Gen. Sts. c. 107, § 44, did not apply to a decree of divorce nisi under the St. of 1870.
Application denied.