(A) Business. This term defines a group of individuals or companies who decide to work together as a single individual, whether for an enterprise or a single transaction, that is not possible to be accomplished by any one member. For example, a group of individual buyers will come together to form one very large purchaser of goods in order to qualify for a bulk purchase discount. (B) Marriage. The companionship, love, affection and intimacy enjoyed by husband and wife. It is usually used in personal injury lawsuits to denote damages that may result and for which a plaintiff will sue a defendant, e.g. the plaintiff is deprived of his wife’s intimacy while she is paralyzed.
Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition
In the civil law. A union of fortunes; a lawful Roman marriage. Also, the joining of several persons as parties to one action. In old English law, the term signified company or society. In the language of pleading, (as in the phrase per quod consortium amisit) it means the companionship or society of a wife.