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 tbe special damage he had sus-talned. 3 Bl. Comm. 140; Cro. Jac. 501, 538; Crocker v. Crocker (C. C.) 98 Fed. 703.
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
