PER QUOD SERVITIUM AMISIT
Categories: Torts
Definition (1910 Edition)
Lat. In old pleading. Whereby he lost the service [of his servant.j] A phrase used in the old declarations in actions of trespass by a master, for beating or ill using his servant, descriptive of the special damage he had himself sustained. 3 Bl. Comm. 142; 9 Coke, 118c; Callaghan v. Lake Hopatcong Ice Co., 69 N. J. Law, 100, 54 Atl. 223.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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