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Consortium

A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

Union of lots or chances: companionship; society; conjugal fellowship and assistance. The right which a husband has to the conjugal fellowship of the wife, to her company, co Speration, and aid in every conjugal relation... He is not the master of the wife, and can maintain no action for the loss of her services as his servant. His interest is expressed b&the word amsortium. Some acts of a stranger to the wife are of themselves invasions of the husband's right and necessarily injurious to' him; others may or may not injure him, according to their consequences: in which cases the injurious consequences must be proved, and that the husband actually lost her company and assistance.^ Per quod eonsortmm amisit. By which he lost her assistance. For a common battery upon the person of the wife trespass for damages is to be brought by husband and wife jointly; but, if, by reason of the maltreatment, he is deprived of her company and assistance, he has a separate remedy therefor. ^