Consortium (Meaning of)

V et al. v. C et al., 1972 CanLII 495 (ON SC)

There is also a modern case in the Supreme Court of Canada dealing with consortium and the bases of Ontario jurisdiction:

Kungl v. Schiefer, 1962 CanLII 5 (SCC), [1962] S.C.R. 443, 33 D.L.R. (2d) 278, on appeal from 1960 CanLII 22 (ON CA), [1961] O.R. 1, 25 D.L.R. (2d) 344 (C.A.). There the Courts were concerned with whether there existed an action for alienation of affections in Ontario and concluded that there was not. At p. 7 O.R., p. 350 D.L.R., of the Court of Appeal judgment Schroeder, J.A., says:

The term "consortium" is not susceptible of precise or complete definition but broadly speaking, companionship, love, affection, comfort, mutual services, sexual intercourse

-- all belonging to the marriage state -- taken together make up what we refer to as consortium.