CONNECTIONS - Black's Law Dictionary

What is CONNECTIONS? Definition of CONNECTIONS in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.

The  state  of being connected or joined;  union by junction, by an intervening sub- stance  or medium, by dependence or relation, or by order in a series. State  v. Patterson, 95 S.C. 463, 79 S.E. 309, 310. Annernen v. Penn, Cust. & Pat.App., 69 F.2d 653, 654.

A contract for a connection between railroads means  a physical  joining of the rails so as to permit trains to pass. from one set of rails to the other.  Philip  A. Ryan Lumber Co. v. Ball, Tex.Civ.App., 197 S.W. 1037, 1038. See, also, State v. Babcock, 161 Minn. 80, 200 N.W. 843, 844; Raynor v. New York & L. I. Traction  Co., 149 N.Y.S. 151, 155, 86. Misc. 201.

Relations by blood  or marriage, but more commonly the relations  of a person  with whom one is connected by'  marriage. In this sense, the  relations of a wife  are "connections" of her husband. The term is vague and indefinite. See Storer v. Wheatley,  1 Pa. 507.

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