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.
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