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CUM COPULA

Latin: With copulation, t. 6., sexual intercourse. Used iii speaking of the validity of a marriage contracted “per verba de futuro cum copula,” that is, with words referring to the future (a future intention to have the marriage solemnized) and consummated by sexual connection. Cum de lucro duorum quaeritur, melior est causa possidentis. When the question is as to the gain of two persons, the cause of him who is in possession is the better. Dig. 50,17, 126. Cum duo inter se pugnantia reperiuntur in testamento, ultimum ratum est. Where two things repugnant to each other are found in a will, the last shall stand. Co. Litt 112b; Shep. Touch. 451; Broom, Max. 583. Cum duo jura coneurrunt in una persona aequum est ac si assent in duobus. When two rights meet in one person, it Is the same as if they were in two persons.

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