Consortium
Defined in 8 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Burrill (1850)
United States Code
42 U.S.C. § 17061 — in this title
The term “Consortium” means the High-Performance Green Building Partnership Consortium created in response to section 17092(c)(1) of this title to represent the private sector in a public-private partnership to promote high-performance green buildings and zero-net-energy commercial buildings.
42 U.S.C. § 17082 — in this section
The term “consortium” means a High-Performance Green Building Consortium selected by the Commercial Director.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Under the term "consortium," as applied to the relations of husband In Civil Law. A union of fortunes; one of the names of lawful marriage among the Romans. Tayl. Civ. Law, 284, A union of several persons as parties in one action. 1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 197. In Old English Law. Company; society. It occurs in this last sense in the phrase per quod consortium amisit, by which he has lost the companionship, used when the plaintiff declares for any bodily injury done to his wife by a third person. 3 Bl. Comm. 140. In Pleading. The company or society of a wife. CONSPIRACY (Lat. con, together, spiro, to breathe).
In criminal law. A combination of two or more persons by some concerted action to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish some not in itself criminal or unlawful, y Eurpose, criminal or unlawful means. 2 Mass. 337, 538; 4 Mete. (Mass.) Ill; 4 Wend. (N. Y.) 229; 15 N. H. 396; 5 Har. & J. (Md.) 317; 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 220; 12 Conn. 101; 11 Clark & F. 155; 4 Mich. 414.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
I. The company or society of a wife.
In old English law. Company; society. In the civil law. ■ A union of fortunes; one of the names of lawful marriage, among the Romans; a union of several persons as parties in an action.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In the elvil law. A union of fortunes; a lawful Roman marriage. Also, the joining of several persons us parties to one action, In old English law, the term signified company or society. In the language of pleading, (as in the phrase per gttod consortium amisit)it means the eompanionship or society of a wife.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
Union of lots or chances: companionship; society; conjugal fellowship and assistance. The right which a husband has to the conjugal fellowship of the wife, to her company, co Speration, and aid in every conjugal relation... He is not the master of the wife, and can maintain no action for the loss of her services as his servant. His interest is expressed b&the word amsortium. Some acts of a stranger to the wife are of themselves invasions of the husband's right and necessarily injurious to' him; others may or may not injure him, according to their consequences: in which cases the injurious consequences must be proved, and that the husband actually lost her company and assistance.^ Per quod eonsortmm amisit. By which he lost her assistance. For a common battery upon the person of the wife trespass for damages is to be brought by husband and wife jointly; but, if, by reason of the maltreatment, he is deprived of her company and assistance, he has a separate remedy therefor. ^
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
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. See Per quod consortium amisit.