Copula
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The corporal consummation of marriage. Copula, (in logic,) the link between subject and predicate contained in the verb. Copulatio verborum indicat acceptationem in eodem sensu. Coupling of words together shows that they are lo be understood in the same sense.
4 Bacon's Works, p. 26; Broom, Max. 588.