Defloration
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The act by which a woman is deprived of her virginity. When this is done unlawfully and againsl her will, it bears the name of rape (which seet: when she consents, it is fornication (which see); or if the man be married it is adultery on bis part; 2 Greenl. Ev. S lv: Com. v. Call, 21 Pick. (Masa) 509, 32 Dec. 281; state v. Hutchinson,::•; Me. 261; Cook v. State, 11 Ga. 53.."<; Am. Dec. 410; Respublica v. Roberts. 2 DaiL (U. B.) 124, 1 L. Ed..".i»;.