Legal Definition and Related Resources of Cohabit
Meaning of Cohabit
Living together as man and wife. Matter of Marriage of Walter, 557 P.2d 57, 27 Or.App. 721. With respect to common law marriage, encompasses many factors necessarily involved when man and woman dwell together as man and wife, including eating together, sharing household duties, payment of household expenses, holding themselves out to public as man and wife and all other numerous aspects of day to day mutual existence of married persons, but it may or may not, under circumstances of particular case, include sexual activity. Beck v Beck, 246 So.2d420, 286 Ala. 692.
Cohabit Alternative Definition
(Lat. con and habere.) To live together in the same house, claiming to be married. The word does not include in its signification, necessarily, the occupying the same bed (1 Hagg. Consist. 144; 4 Paige, Ch. [N. Y.] 425; 116 U.S. 55), though the word is popularly, and sometimes in. statutes, used in this latter sense (20 Mo. 210; Bish. Mar. & Div. § 506, note). It does not include mere sexual intercourse, without a habitual dwelling together. 36 Ark. 84; 10 Mass. 163. To live together in the same house. Used without reference to the relation of the parties to each other as husband and wife, or otherwise. Used of sisters or other members of the same family, or of persons not members of the same family, occupying the same house. 2 Vern. 323; Bish. Mar. & Div. 506, note.
Synonyms of Cohabit
verb
- abide together
- be intimate
- conjugate
- consuescere
- copulate
- couple
- dwell together
- live in sexual intimacy
- live together
- live with
- lodge together
- reside together
- room together
- share an address
- share bed and board
- stay together
- Associated Concepts: cohabit as husband and wife
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