In the civil law. A nnlon of fortunes; a lawful Roman marriage. Also, the joining of several persons as par-ties 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 com-panionship or society of a wife. Bigaouette v. Paulet, 134 Mass. 123, 45 Am. Rep. 307; Lockwood v. Lockwood, 67 Minn. 47G, 70 N. W. 784; Kelley v. Railroad Co., 168 Mass. 308, 46 N. E. 1063, 38 L. R. A. 631, 60 Am. St Rep. 397
