COPULATIVE TERM

One which is placed between two or more others to join them together: the word and is frequently used for this purpose. For example, a man promises to pay another a certain sum of money, and to give his note for another sum: in this case he must perform both. 2. But the copulative may sometimes be construed into a disjunctive, as, when things are copulated which cannot possibly be so; for example, to die testate and intestate. For examples of construction of disjunctive terms, see the cases cited at the word Disjunctive, and Ayl. Pand. 55;