Legal Definition and Related Resources of Carnal

Pertains to the body and includes carnal knowledge of the body by another by either natural or unnatural copulation. Washington v state (Fla.) 302 So.2d 401.

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Carnal in Historical Law

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This term is an adjetive.

Etimology of Carnal

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c. 1400, “physical, human, mortal,” from Old French carnal and directly from Medieval Latin carnalis “natural, of the same blood,” from Latin carnis “of the flesh,” genitive of caro “flesh, meat,” “flesh,” originally “a piece of flesh,” from PIE root *sker- (1) “to cut.” Meaning “sensual” is from early 15c.; that of “worldly, sinful” is from mid-15c. Carnal knowledge is attested from early 15c. and was in legal use by 1680s.

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