Consortium
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from consors, a partner, from con, together, and sors, a lot.] In the civil law. A union of fortunes; one of the names of lawful marriage. Cooper's Justin.
Inst. Notes, *420.
A union of several persons as parties in an action.
1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 197, Kaufmann's Note.
In old English law
Company; society.
Moor, 817.
In pleading. The company or society of a wife.