Lat. In old pleading. Whereby he lost the company [of his wife.] A phrase used in the old declarations In actions of trespass by a husband, for beating or ill using his wife, descriptive of the special damage he had sustained. 3 Bl. Comm. 140; Cro. Jac. 501, 538; Crocker v. Crocker (C. C.) 98 Fed. 703.
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