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Buggery

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A carnal copulation against nature; and this is either by the confusion of species,—that is to say, a man or a woman with a brute beast,—or of sexes, as a man with a man or man unnaturally with a woman.

3 Inst 58; 12 Coke, 36. Ausman v. Veal, 10 Ind. 356, 71 Am. Dee, 331; Com. v. J., 21 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 626.