carnal knowledge
Defined in 7 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Bouvier (1839)
United States Code
42 U.S.C. § 15609 — in this chapter
The term “carnal knowledge” means contact between the penis and the vulva or the penis and the anus, including penetration of any sort, however slight.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Sexual connection. The term is generally, if not exclusively, applied to the act of the male. The term is a technical one, and has been always held adequate to express the idea of sexual bodily connection. 22 Ohio St. 541; • 97 Mass. 61. Technical words in indictments for rape, and held essential. 1 Hale, P. C. 637-639; 3 Inst. 60.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
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.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Coitus; copulation; sexual intercourse.
Defined under Knowledge in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The act of a man in having sexual bodily connection with a woman. Carnal knowledge and sexual intercourse held equivalent expressions. 22 Ohio St. 541. From very early times, in the law, as in common speech, the meaning of the words "carnal knowledge" of a woman by a man has been sexual bodily connection; and these words, without more, have been used in that sense by writers of the highest authority on criminal law, when undertaking to give a full and precise definition of the crime of rape, the highest crime of this character. 97 Mass. 61.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
crim. law. This phrase is used to signify a sexual connexion; as, rape is the carnal knowledge of a woman,