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Concubinage

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

A species of loose or informal marriage which took place among the ancients, and which is yetin use in some countries.

See-CONCUBINATUS.

The act or practice of cohabiting, in sexual commerce, without the authority of law ora iegal marriage. An exception against a woman suing for dower, on the ground that she was the concubine, and not the wife, of the man of