Related to or affecting the heart, or in legal terms, being jointly liable or responsible with another person.
From Latin 'cor' (heart) plus '-realis' (relating to), originally medical terminology that extended into legal language to describe shared responsibility.
This word shows how the heart was seen as the center of everything—even the law used heart-related words to describe people bound together by duty, not just blood!
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