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Definition of Conjugal rights
1. Noun. The rights and privileges arising from the marital relationship; especially those of love, affection, companionship, comfort and sexual relations. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conjugal Rights
Literary usage of Conjugal rights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"At the Edinburgh meeting, memorable for the first communication (on a case of
restitution of conjugal rights) addressed by the assembly to the English ..."
2. The Rights and Liabilities of Husband and Wife by John Fraser Macqueen (1905)
"208 4. For impotency . . . 209 5. Relief mutt be promptly sought 209 6. Suit for
restitution of conjugal rights . . .210 7. ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on Divorce and Matrimonial Jurisdiction Under the Act by John Fraser Macqueen (1858)
"Who to decide suits for restitution of conjugal rights. ... Besides, there arc
some conjugal rights •which belong to a different jurisdiction ; yet here is ..."
4. The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both by James Stephen (1824)
"... for the husband of a negress having, in the transport of his indignation,
killed a negro whom he caught in the act of violating his conjugal rights, ..."
5. The Law of Persons: Or, Domestic Relations, by Epaphroditus Peck by Epaphroditus Peck (1913)
"Lack of legal remedy to enforce conjugal rights. ... In England there was from
early times an action for the restitution of conjugal rights, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Domestic Relations: Embracing Husband and Wife by James Schouler, Arthur Walker Blakemore (1921)
"In Great Britain, where this suit for restitution of conjugal rights has always been
... Compromise, too, of the suit foi restitution of conjugal rights is ..."
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