Corporal

Relating to the body; bodily. Should be dlstingulshed from corporeal, (q. n.)

— Corporal imbecility. Physical inability to perform completely the act of sexuai intercourse; not necessarily congenital, and not invariably a permanent and incurable impotence. Griffeth v. Griffeth 162 111. 368, 44 N. E. 820; Ferris v. Ferris, 8 Co.nn. 168.

— Corporal oath. An oath, the external solemnity of which consists in laying one's hand upon the Gospels while the oath ls administered to him. More generally, a solemn oath. The terms "corporal oath" and "solemn oath" are, in Indiana, at least, used synonymously; and an oath taken with the uplifted hand may be properly described by either term. Jackson v. State, 1 Ind. 185; State v. Norris, 9 N. H. 102; Com. v. Jarboe, 89 Ky. 148, A.2 S. W. 138.

— Corporal punishment. Physical punishment as distinguished from pecuniary punishment or a fine; any kind of punishment of or inflicted on the body, such as whipping or the pillory ; the term may or may not include imprisonment, according to the context. Ritchey v. People, 22 Colo. 251, 43 Pae, 1026; People v. Winchell, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 525, note.

— Corporal touch. Bodily touch; actual physical contact; manual apprehension.

Bodily; personal. Corporal oath: an oath taken by laying hand on, or, it would seem, by otherwise touching, the gospels, i. e. by actual contact of the person.

Relating to the body; bodily. Should be distinguished from corporeal, (qg. 2.) A non-commissioned officer of the lowest grade in a company of soldiers in the army.

1. Relating to the body of a* person; bodily: as, corporal punishment, q. v.; corporal seizure or touching. See Arrest, 2; Corpus. 3. Affecting a thing externally; as, a corporal oath, — taken with the hand upon the Gospels. See Oath. 3. In person: as, a corporal appearance. Compare CORPORBAt.

[Lat. corporalis, corporale, from corpus, q. v.] Bodily; personal. Corporal oath. [Lat. corporale sacramentum.] An oath taken by laying hand on the gospels, as by actual contact of the person. 3 Inst. c. 74. Cowell, voc. Oath. Tacto per se sancto evangelio; having personally touched the holy gospel. Cro. Eliz. 105. The oath of proctors and advocates in the English consistory courts is in the following words: Ego A. B. ad ista sancta Dei evangelia per me corporaliter tacta juro, quod, &c.; I, A. B., on these holy gospels of God, by me corporally touched, do swear, that, &c. Hallifax Anal. Appendix, No. vi.

an epithet for any thing belonging to the body, as, corporal punishment, for punishment inflicted on the person of the criminal; corporal oath, which isan oath by the party who takes it being obliged to lay his hand on the Bible.