CONSORTIUM

consortium (k<<schwa>>n-sor-shee-<<schwa>>m).1. The benefits that one person, esp. a spouse, is entitled to receive from another, including companionship, cooperation, affection, aid, financial support, and (between spouses) sexual relations <a claim for loss of consortium>. See LOSS OF CONSORTIUM; CONJUGAL RIGHTS . filial consortium (fil-ee-<<schwa>>l). A child’s society, affection, and companionship given to a parent. [Cases: Parent and Child  7. C.J.S. Parent and Child § 329.] parental consortium.A parent’s society, affection, and companionship given to a child. [Cases: Parent and Child  7.5.] spousal consortium.A spouse’s society, affection, and companionship given to the other spouse. [Cases: Husband and Wife  209(3, 4).] 2.Hist. The services of a wife or daughter, the loss of which gives rise to a cause of action. • A husband could, for example, bring an action against a person who had injured his wife, “whereby he lost the help or companionship (of his wife)” (per quod consortium amisit).3. A group of companies that join or associate in an enterprise <several high-tech businesses formed a consortium to create a new supercomputer>.4.Roman law. A community of undivided goods existing among coheirs after the death of the head of their family (paterfamilias). Pl. consor-tiums, consortia. [Blacks Law 8th]