Consummation or consummation of a marriage, in many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, is the first (or first officially credited) act of sexual intercourse between two people, either following their marriage to each other or after a prolonged sexual attraction. Its legal significance arises from theories of marriage as having the ... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consummation
Con`sum·ma'tion (kŏn`sŭm*mā'shŭn) noun [ Latin consummatio .] The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life). « ''T is a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Shak. ... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/145
The completion of a thing; such as the consummation of marriage, the consummation of a contract, and the like. Found on http://www.lectlaw.com/def/c293.htm