conjugal rights

conjugal rights
   copulation with your spouse
   Legal jargon, from the parties being yoked together, and indeed in some societies a symbolic yoke formed part of the marriage ceremony. A woman is unlikely to seek these rights from her husband except in satire:
    Wilt had enough trouble with his own virility without having Eva demand that her conjugal rights be supplemented oralwise. (Sharpe, 1976)
   If a wife goes to court for the restoration of conjugal rights, she seeks pecuniary rather than sexual gratification.

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  • conjugal rights — n pl the sexual rights or privileges implied by and involved in the marriage relationship: the right of sexual intercourse between husband and wife …   Medical dictionary

  • conjugal rights — noun plural the rights that each partner has in a marriage, especially the right each has to have sex with the other …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • conjugal rights — noun plural : the sexual rights or privileges implied by and involved in the marriage relationship : the right of coitus between husband and wife * * * ˌconjugal ˈrights 7 [conjugal rights] noun plural the right …   Useful english dictionary

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  • conjugal rights — Marital rights; the rights of husband and wife, as such. 26 Am J1st H & W §5 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • conjugal rights — noun plural Date: 1768 the sexual rights or privileges implied by and involved in the marriage relationship ; the right of sexual intercourse between husband and wife …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • conjugal rights — the sexual rights and privileges conferred on husband and wife by the marriage bond. [1890 95] * * * …   Universalium

  • conjugal rights — noun The rights and privileges arising from the marital relationship; especially those of love, affection, companionship, comfort and sexual relations …   Wiktionary

  • conjugal rights — plural noun the rights, especially to sexual relations, regarded as exercisable in law by each partner in a marriage …   English new terms dictionary

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