Lat. In old pleading, whereby he lost the service [of his servant.] A phrase used in the old declarations in actions of trespass by a master, for beating or ill using his servant, descriptive of the speclal damage he had hlm-self sustained. 3 Bl. Comm. 142; 9 Coke, 113a; Callaghan v. Lake Hopatcong Ice Co.. 69 N. J. Law, 100, 54 Atl. 223.
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
