Buggery

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Bouvier (1839)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Includes both "bestiality," or carnal connection between a human being and a beast, and "sodomy," or carnal connection between human beings against the order of nature. 3 Inst. 58.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A term applied to both bestiality and sodomy. See 10 Ind. 355, 71 Am. Dec. 331.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Acarnal 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.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

crim. law, is the detestable crime of having commerce contrary to the order of nature by mankind with mankind, or with brute beasts, or by womankind with brute beasts. 3 Inst. 58; 12 Co. 36; Dane’s Ab. Index, h.t.; Merl. Répert. Mot. Bestialité. This is a highly penal offence. ' BUILDING, estates, is an edifice erected by art and fixed upon or on the soil, composed of different pieces of stone, brick, marble, wood or other proper substance, connected together, and designed for permanent use in the position in which it is so fixed. Every building is an accessary to the soil, and is therefore Vide 1 Chit. Pr. 148,171; Salk. 459; Hob. 131.