English

Alternative forms

• crim con

Noun

crim. con. ‎(uncountable)

1. (law, colloquial, now historical) Criminal conversation.
   • 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, XV.84:

     And then he had good looks;—that point was carried

     Nem. con. amongst the women, which I grieve

     To say leads oft to crim. con. with the married—

     A case which to the juries we may leave.

   • 1999, Kirsten Olsen, Daily Life in 18th Century England:

     In fact, it was not unknown for husbands and wives to collude in the wife's adultery, either to collect a large crim. con. settlement or to secure a divorce.

   • 2012, Catherine Peters, "Feminist Fatale", Literary Review, 403:

     If she was unfaithful, a civil action for ‘crim con’ could be brought by her husband to assert his property rights over her and obtaion financial redress for infringement of them.