Cohabit

(Lat. con and habere.) To live together in the same house, claiming to be married. The word does not include in its signification, necessarily, the occupying the same bed (1 Hagg. Consist. 144; 4 Paige, Ch. [N. Y.] 425; 116 U. S. 55), though the word is popularly, and sometimes in. statutes, used in this latter sense (20 Mo. 210; Bish. Mar. & Div. § 506, note). It does not include mere sexual intercourse, without a habitual dwelling together.

36 Ark. 84; 10 Mass. 163.

To live together in the same house. Used without reference to the relation of the parties to each other as husband and wife, or otherwise. Used of sisters or other members of the same family, or of persons not members of the same family, occupying the same house.

2 Vern. 323; Bish. Mar. & Div. 506, note.