consortiumn.

1829 Edinb. Rev. 50 89 If the consortium give pleasure to the shades of these good people, we must acquiesce in it.

1881 H. A. Webster in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 466/2 [article Italy] The law [of 1874] united the six banks into a consorzio or union, bound, if required, to furnish to the national exchequer bank-notes to the value of 1,000,000,000 lire manufactured and renewed at their common expense; but by the law of 7th April 1881..the consortium of the banks came to a close on the 30th June 1881, and the consortial notes actually current are formed into a direct national debt.

1930 Time & Tide 30 Aug. 1086 The bankers have formed a consortium to help rationalize industry.

1936 Nature 4 July 5/1 Preference was given for the execution of the work by consortia of landowners or public bodies.

1957 New Scientist 12 Sept. 31/1 Spokesmen for two of the consortia that tendered for the first CEA nuclear power stations.

1961 Listener 28 Dec. 1110/2 An interesting development..is the formation of a Yorkshire consortium of local authorities. The chairmen of the housing committees of Sheffield, Hull, and Leeds have announced that they are going to co-ordinate their housing programmes.

1962 H. O. Beecheno Introd. Business Stud. xii. 107 Recently there have been several cases of manufacturers with connected interests forming a consortium in order to get large overseas contracts for capital developments.

1963 Ann. Reg. 1962 282 The formation of aid consortia for Turkey and Greece. The Turkish consortium was formed on 31 July.

1658 H. Grimston tr. G. Croke Reports II. 501 Trespass of Assault and Battery: for that the Defendant..assaulted and beat the wife of the Plaintiff, per quod consortium uxoris suæ for three days amisit.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. viii. 140 The third injury is that of beating a man's wife... If the..husband is deprived for any time of the company and assistance of his wife, the law then gives him a..remedy by an action upon the case for this ill-usage, per quod consortium amisit.]

1836 in W. C. Curteis Rep. Cases in Doctors' Commons (1840) I. 198 Mr. Sherwood would have a right to claim the consortium of his wife.

1861 Law Times Rep. 5 293/1 Consortium..necessarily includes the idea of a union of two persons, each of whom is the consort of the other.

1932 Law Rep.: King's Bench Div. 2 512 It seems..clear that at the present day a husband has a right to the consortium of his wife, and the wife to the consortium of her husband.

1957 M. Turner-Samuels Law of Married Women i. 11 It was held by the House of Lords..that the right of a husband to damages for loss of consortium against a person who negligently injures his wife is an anomaly at the present day.

1971 R. A. Percy Charlesworth on Negligence (ed. 5) iii. 72 The same principle would apply to an action by a husband suing for the loss of consortium of his wife, since he has been deprived of her services.

1964 E. Huxley Back Street New Worlds xii. 122 As you enter, you are engulfed in a consortium of odours in which dried and pickled fish predominate.

1975 New Yorker 24 Nov. 58/2 The ice was cracked, if not broken, by the publication of such books as ‘The American Soldier’..by a consortium of academics led by Samuel A. Stouffer, of Harvard.

1979 J. Grimond Mem. viii. 128 The consortium of Majors present, of whom I was one, decided we had better ring up our superiors.