A person summoned to answer a bill, petition, or libel, together with another respondent. Now chiefly used to designate the person charged with adultery with the respondent in a suit for divorce for that cause, and joined as a defendant with such party. Lowe v. Bennett, 27 Misc. Rep. 356, 58 N. Y. Supp. 88. … [Read more...]

In medical jurisprudence. A disposition or habit of using obscene language, developing unexpectedly in the particular individual or contrary to his previous history and habits, recognized as a sign of insanity or of aphasia. … [Read more...]

To forfeit one's skin, applied to a person condemned to be whipped ; anciently the punishment of a servant. Corium perdere, the same. Corium redimere, to compound for a whipping. Wharton. … [Read more...]

The corporal consummation of marriage. Copula, (in logic,) the link between subject and predicate contained in the verb. Copulatio cerborum indicat acceptationem in codem sensu. Coupling of words together shows that they are to be understood in the same sense. 4 Bacon's Works, p. 26; Broom, Max. 588. … [Read more...]

Joint ownership, usually referring to an estate that is inherited by two or more persons and divided equally. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition A species of estate, or tenancy, which exists where lands of inheritance descend from the ancestor to two or more persons. It arises in England either by common law or particular custom. By common law, as where a person, … [Read more...]