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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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.