What is CONSORTIUM? Definition of CONSORTIUM in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
Conjugal fellowship of husband and wife, and the right of each to the company, co-operation, affection, and aid of the other in every conjugal relation. McMillan v. Smith, 47
Ga.App. 646, 171 S.E. 169, 170; Shedrick v. Lathrop, 106 Vt. 311, 172 A. 630, 632; Harris v. Kunkel, 227 Wis. 435, 278 N.W. 868, 869.
The term includes the exclusive right to the services of the spouse, and to his or her society, companionship, and conjugal affection. Smith v. Nicholas Bldg. Co., 93 Ohio St. 101, 112 N.E. 204.
In its original application the term was not confined to society, companionship, and conjugal affection, but included service as a prominent, if not the predominant, factor not so much the service resulting in the performance of labor or the earning of wages as the service which contributed aid and assistance in all the relations of domestic life. Hinnant v. Tide Water Power Co., 189 N.C. 120, 126 S.E. 307, 309, 37 A.L.R. 889.
In the civil law. A union of fortunes; a lawful Roman marriage. The joining of several persons as parties to one action.
In old English law, the term signified company or society, and in the language of pleading, as in the phrase per quod consortium amisit, it has substantially the same meaning, viz., the companionship or society of a wife. 3 Bla.Comm. 140; Kelley v. Railroad Co., 168 Mass. 308, 46 N.E. 1063, 38 L.R.A. 631, 60 Am.St.Rep. 397.
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