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Copulative

Serving to couple unite or connect as a copulative conjunction like ldquoandrdquo...

Sodomy, is non coital, cornal copulation with a member of the same or opposite sex, AIR 1962 Kant 46 (48). [(Indian) Divorce Act, 1869, s. 10**]1. Oral or anal copulation between humans, esp. those of same sex 2. Oral or anal copulation between human and animal; bestiality, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1396.Sodomy, the crime against nature, punishable until 1891 by a minimum term of ten years' penal servitude; prescribed by s. 61 of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, but the effect of the Penal Servitude Act, 1891, s. 1, sub-s. 2, appears to be that imprisonment may be substituted, though this particular crime is not expressly mentioned in that Act....