Concubinage
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A species of marriage which took place among the anclei The act or practice of < in sexual commerce, without the authority of law or a legal marriage.
See 1 Brown, Civ. Law SO; Merlin, lU'p.; Dig. 32. 49, i: 7. 1. 1; Code, 5. 27.
12. "Concubinage is the act upon the part of the woman of cohabiting with a man without ceremonial marriage, or consent and i good at common law."
U. S. v. Bitty, 155 Fed. 938.
See a definition in Stale v. Baldwin, 214 Mo. 290, 113 S. W. 1123. hiving together and having sexual relations as husband and wife; State v. Tucker.
72 Kan, 481, 84 Pac. 126.
The words concubinage and prostitution have no Co: law meaning, but in their popular sense all cases of lewd intercourse; People v. Cummons, 50 Mich. 544, 23 N. W. 215. See Abduction; Prostitution; Procuration.