Consortium
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the elvil law. A union of fortunes; a lawful Roman marriage. Also, the joining of several persons us parties to one action, In old English law, the term signified company or society. In the language of pleading, (as in the phrase per gttod consortium amisit)it means the eompanionship or society of a wife.