Defloration
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The act by which a woman is deprived of her virginity. When this is done unlawfully and against her will, it bears the name of "rape" (q. V.); when she consents, it is "fornication" (q. V.); or if the man be married, it is "adultery" on his part.
2 Greenl. Ev. § 48; 21 Pick. (Mass.) 509; 36 Me. 261; 11 Ga. 53; 2 Dall. (Pa.) 124.