Carnal Knowledge
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Sexual connection. Com. y.
Squires, 97 Mass. 50; Noble v. State, 22 Ohio St 541.
The term is generally, if not exclusively, applied to the act of a male. In the statutes relating to abuse or carnal knowledge of a female child of tender age, the word abuse includes the words carnally know, and the latter term also includes the former, as there could be no carnal knowledge of such a child by a man capable of committing rape, without injury; Dawkins v. State, 58 Ala. 370, 29 Am. Rep. 754.