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. Bigaouette v. Paulet, 134 Mass. 123. 45 Am. Rep. 307; Lockwood v. Lockwood, 67 Minn. 476, 70 N. W. 7S4; Kelley v. Railroad Co., 108 Mass. 308, 46 N. E. 1063, 38 L. R- A. 631, 60 Am. St. Rep. 397.
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