Connection

1. "Railroad connection " means either such a union of teacks as to admit the passage of cars from one road to another, or such intersection of roads as to admit the convenient interchange of freight and passengers.8 The word conveys no implication of a right to connect business with business." The " connections " of a steamer, referred to in a, policy of insurance, may refer to regular connections only.'" Connecting line.

— In the sense of the Georgia act of 1874, is where any railroad at its terminus, or any intermediate point along its line, joins another, or where two railroads have the same teiininus;

— or where a railroad is adjacent to another and capable of being ' R. S. 1 15: Act 25 July, 1866. »R. S. § 16: Act 26 July, 1866. • R. S. S 17: Act 25 July, 1866. «R. S. § 28; Act 1 June, 1798. «R. S. § 31: Acts 21 Feb., 1867, 3 March, 1863. •R. S. §§ 32-33: Act 21 Feb., 1867. ' R. S. § 35: Act 26 July, 1866, 8 Mar., 1873, 20 Jan., 1874.

8 Philadelphia, &c. R. Co. v, Catawissa R. Co., 53 Pa. 20;59 (1866); 60Md. 269. • Atchison, &c.

R. Co. v. Denver, &c. R. Co., 110 U. S. 676-79 (1884). joined to it by a switch, either at its terminus or wherever along its line they meet or converge, and the right is given to make such connection, whether it bo voluntarily granted or not.'

See Commerce.

2.

Any relation by which one society is linked or united to another.2 3. " Connections " is more vague than " relations." In popular phrase, a wife's relations are her husband's connections; but connections, unless they are also relations, never take by the statute of distributions.^ See Relation, 3. 4. " Guilty connection,'' applied to a man and a woman, imports carnal connection.*