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